Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peter Coyote, doesn't have the tight focus or cumulative force of The Civil War; with so much ground to cover, this wagon train can't linger too long in any one spot. And we miss at least some discussion of how the legendary figures of the West fit into the story. Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok are dismissed in a sentence; Jesse James and the O.K. Corral aren't mentioned at all. Viewers weaned on TV and movie westerns will be mildly disappointed. And Buffalo Bill would have been appalled...
...worked with him on the President's campaign. Morris revealed no hint of the troubles that were eating away at him. At the convention center, where Al Gore would soon be giving his speech, McCurry got a call from senior adviser Stephanopoulos. McCurry asked him how he should fit the Morris news into the next day's briefing for reporters. Stephanopoulos had it figured. "This," he said, "is the only story you're going to deal with tomorrow...
...right brain spins the story this way: it is poetic justice. A highly paid political prostitute, Dick Morris, comes to grief in the arms of an expensive hooker in Washington--a perfect moral fit. The case almost accidentally opens a door upon a disturbing side of American politics--not Dick Morris' character (who cares?) so much as the larger drama of American political manipulation in 1996, and a general atmosphere of sleaze that even the canned floral scents of "family values" cannot perfume...
...this the convention's invocation of the spirit of Ronald Reagan and the resurrection of supply-side economic theory, and you get a concoction that is fit only for the 1980s. Times have changed but apparently not the G.O.P. The disastrous effects of 12 years of Reagan and Bush administrations on the economy seem to be easily forgotten. KLAAS B. VAN DER POEL St. Jean de Muzols, France...
...Thank God there's no lampshade here big enough to fit Ted Kennedy's head...