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Primary voters in general, and New Hampshire voters in particular, savor the right to reserve judgment, which suggests that Forbes is neither so flush nor Dole so wounded as last week's freeze frame suggests. Dole has 2 1/2 weeks, a political lifetime, to regain the lead in New Hampshire, during which time Forbes will finally face the scrutiny afforded a front runner. Though Forbes has no real political record to help or haunt him, he is sure to have to answer for ideas he has promoted in his magazine, from his support of Gerald Ford over Ronald Reagan...
...SHOULD HAVE BEEN there a few weeks ago when Steve Forbes held one of his campaign bashes at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Joan Rivers emceed. The $1,000-a-plate tables were flush with interested parties like Alan ("Ace") Greenberg, head of the prominent investment firm Bear Stearns, and Leonard Lauder of the Estee Lauder cosmetics family. More than 1,400 people attended, which meant about $1.2 million for the campaign treasury. It was a big night for Forbes, his most successful fund raiser...
...diesel fumes. Christmas dinner will be the T-rations detested by G.I.s; carols will be sung to the hum of noisy electric generators. And many of the soldiers setting up camps for the Bosnia peacekeeping operation will sleep in tents. Big ones with wooden floors, heat, fluorescent lights and flush toilets. But still tents...
...athletes play," he says. "I don't take winning and losing quite as seriously as most.") and his time as a postdoctoral fellow in Cambridge, England ("I go back there almost every summer," he says.), Stone paused in an interview last week to disprove the common belief that toilets flush in one direction in the Northern Hemisphere and a different direction in the Southern hemisphere...
Still, the irresistible fervor of the artist comes through. Williams, who eventually succeeded in publishing some volumes of poetry, was never much of a poet. But his greatest plays are flush with poetry in the broad sense--with moments of compressed lyrical yearning. A number of his most famous lines (like Blanche DuBois' valedictory "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers") might well have surfaced in one of Robert Frost's adage-laden verse-monologues...