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...confusing moment. In the campaign of 1996, Bob Dole became almost an irrelevance. The real struggle was between the two versions, almost Manichaean, of Bill Clinton: the President bound for Rushmore, or the incipient felon. Both scenarios are speculations about the future, as all elections are. For the present, the American voter found a way between the two extremes (best hope, worst fear) by acquiescing to what seemed, on balance, the least unsatisfactory of the candidates...
...hearings. After eight months there's no smoking gun, no smoking anything, just a simmering stew of subdivided Ozark property without sewer lines and endless minutiae about closing costs and mortgage points. No one knows the protagonists--imagine trying to cast the pudgy David Hale, a confessed felon and owner of a failed burial insurance company. The best visual from the first Whitewater trial is already gone: the Trekkie alternate juror in Vulcan regalia. The wonder is that she was beamed...
...Hale has provided to the government, both the McDougals and Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker are on trial for conspiracy and fraud. Hale is a key prosecution witness in the trial, but defense attorneys are seeking to undermine his credibility by telling the jury that he is a convicted felon and "a fraud from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet." President Clinton has called Hale's claims "a bunch of bull." The president has not been charged with a crime, but is expected to testify for the defense in early April...
...Alice revolves around the gruesome psychoses of an unnamed murderer and pedophile whom we meet during his 23rd year in prison. He is one of those genius wackos who make easy references to Flemish painters and Eastern boarding schools--the kind of felon who exists maddeningly often in pop culture and rarely ever in real life, where major crimes are not generally committed by people who sound as though they've been reading Roland Barthes between mutilations...
...Homes (Scribner; 270 pages; $22) revolves around the gruesome psychoses of an unnamed murderer and pedophile whom we meet during his 23rd year in prison. "He is one of those genius wackos who make easy references to Flemish painters and Eastern boarding schools -- the kind of felon who exists maddeningly often in pop culture and rarely ever in real life, where major crimes are not generally committed by people who sound as though they've been reading Roland Barthes between mutilations," says TIME's Ginia Bellafante. The story demands to disturb and repulse, a portrait of a sick mind filled...