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...overall poll numbers continue to flutter, the state-by-state map may also see some dramatic shifts in the final week -- but probably not enough to shake Clinton's grip on an electoral-vote majority. One Bush adviser conceded, "We have to pull to an inside straight. But if we win everywhere where we are now eight points back, it could actually happen." More likely is the hope in the Clinton camp that a relatively modest majority in the popular vote, or even a mere plurality brought about because of Perot's share, will still translate into an electoral-vote...
...faithful version emphasizing neon glow and urban grit, interest surged in another Broadway revival, this time by the book. A discreet bidding war ensued for the approval of Loesser's widow, actress Jo Sullivan, who holds key copyrights and has firm opinions about every detail of staging, from the flutter of a hand to the color of a necktie. The winner: a partnership, calling itself the Dodgers, that had produced noteworthy new musicals (Big River, The Secret Garden) but never a revival...
...lift our spirits (top choice: Louisiana), we may have accomplished much the same thing through the efforts of the Federal Reserve. When the Fed cut the discount rate a full point, to 3 1/2%, it was like pounding an economy in cardiac arrest. Suddenly, its little eyelids began to flutter, its stock market leaped out of bed, and people began to realize this might be one darn good time to go buy a house, at least in some parts of the country...
...With a flutter of contrition, House members voted 390-8 to shut down their private bank, which by this time had been dubbed B.C.C.I., the Bank of Corrupt Congressional Incumbents. Dozens of lawmakers came forward and admitted writing bad checks, offering up the occasional absentminded staffer as a sacrificial lamb. Refusing to release names of all the deadbeats, Foley referred the issue to the House ethics committee. But that move also invited derision at the idea of the ethically blind leading the ethically blind. It turns out at least some committee members, including the chairman, have been named...
...with the wandering Christian knight Rinaldo on glimpsing his sleeping face. The sensuous color, the glow of flesh and even the eyeline of the scene -- shot, as it were, from slightly below -- recall the Titians and Veroneses that Van Dyck had avidly studied in Venice seven years before; the flutter of Armida's red cloak, a discreet image of erotic turmoil, recalls the love god's cloak in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne...