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Since the acting is superb and since Crowe both wrote and directed Singles, only he can be blamed for any shortcomings. One flaw is his attempt to incorporate too much into his characters' lives. He neglects to flesh out subplots like Janet's breast enlargement, Linda's miscarriage, and her month-long environmental trip to Alaska...
...continuing distortion of his opponent's record and proposals, play a smaller role in determining our judgment of him; the President has a first-term record voters can consider. Clinton is another matter simply because he has yet to serve. We just don't know if the character flaw his dissembling reveals is a significant indicator of how he would govern or a jumble of white lies the country can safely ignore. So the search for clues continues...
...economic advisers continued to try to divert blame for the economy to everything from Congress to the end of the cold war to Saddam Hussein to the German central bank. In a hard-hitting speech in New Orleans, Clinton portrayed the Administration's economic excuses as a Bush character flaw, proof of "the failure of the President to assume responsibility for the future of this country...
...highest levels of the national media talent and ambition such as Sheery's are almost the norm. In a tremendously competitive business, ethical responsibility and even editorial supervision can too easily fall by the wayside while a reporter is intent on the big, prizewinning story. Wetlaufer describes this flaw, this loss of persepective and judgment that sometimes occurs in journalism, precisely...
...verities. Many of his prescriptions have caused Jackson and Cuomo to grumble, but they saved their full-throated ire for Clinton's rebuke of Sister Souljah. Common decency dictates that those seeking high office be willing to condemn the rap singer's racist ravings, but Jackson perceived a "character flaw" in Clinton's "sneak attack" on Souljah at an "emergency" meeting of Jackson's "rainbow coalition." Speaking of himself in the third person (an affectation common to megalomaniacs), Jackson denounced Clinton's courage as a "Machiavellian maneuver" designed "purely to appeal to conservative whites by containing Jackson and isolating Jackson...