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Truman introduced the first television set to the White House, a harbinger of the presence of TV cameras and 24-hour cable journalists, who constantly haunt the grounds today. But the White House was always an experimental ground for new, in particular domestic, technology. Jefferson had two flush toilets; Andrew Jackson got running water and the first shower; Martin Van Buren brought in central heating; and Polk did away with candles and oil and lighted his chandeliers with gas. An early form of air conditioning was improvised for the dying James A. Garfield in the summer of 1881. Rutherford...
...After the first flush of Rush, when he quickly built an audience of 15 million and earned bundles for himself and his stations, radio execs scrambled to put ditto-mouths on the air. Then, like most pop-cultural fashions, this one started to pale. Maybe the talk was too hot (listeners can't stay angry forever). Or political issues lost some urgency in a time when the economy was robust and, for most Americans, the rest of the globe ceased to exist (Bosnia, Belfast, world hunger... yawn). On radio, the sports-talk format took hold; so, late at night...
...Tifton, Ga. (pop. 15,000), no one was turning cartwheels, flush with pride. Any day now, a new claim will go up, and when it does, the whole town will party...
Kathleen Turner is in many ways the perfect woman for this role. From the opening toilet flush, her sultry voice and seductive manner mesh perfectly with Bankhead's lusty persona. It is unexpectedly easy to forget you're watching Kathleen Turner instead of Tallulah Bankhead. The one-woman show takes the form of an intimate conversation with the audience as Bankhead plans her entrance into the political arena-no easy task for a woman who once described herself as "pure as the driven slush." As Bankhead, Turner confides details of her sex life, knocks back enough liquor to fell...
...Across the aisle, Bush is flush with pundits' praise, and is reportedly feeling pretty darn good. That alone should give supporters a reason to worry - this is not the time for Bush's tendency toward overconfidence to rear its ugly head. By now, we know Bush can do personable, affable and even humorous; now he's got to maintain his cool, and convince voters he can, in fact, be presidential, as his surrogates have insisted time and again...