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...Harriet Westbrook, Bysshe's legal wife who goes insane, Susan B. McConnel performs a convincing and disturbing monologue before drowning herself. After this scene, she is reduced to gratuitous appearances as a silent ghost. Vincent d'Errico is appropriately prissy and deluded as Dr. William Polidori, the small-minded biographer who hangs around the writers and turns up his nose at their liberated lifestyle...
...came from a wimpy job on the mayor's security detail. By Episode 2 (the following Wednesday), the show already seems to be marking time with goofy character diversions. One detective jabbers obsessively about finding the real killer of President Lincoln; another gets crime-solving help from a ghost; a third, a middle-aged divorce, turns into an imbecile when he tries to ask a colleague for a date. Homicide does a professional job when it stays on the case. But even then, it's no miracle worker...
...scene at the Senate played out like Kabuki theater. Here the ghost of Anita Hill welcomed two new committee members, Carol Moseley-Braun and Dianne Feinstein, who owed their election in some measure to her. Here sat some of the same members who had been lambasted for their handling of Hill, eager for the chance to display their elaborate courtesy and newfound sensitivity. Here was Hill's chief tormentor, Orrin Hatch, praising Baird's competence, her record as a corporate lawyer, knowing full well that for his conservative purposes Baird was the best candidate he could hope...
Saddam Hussein was the ghost at the banquets last week, diverting the attention of both the old Administration and the new. All the galas in Washington could not blot out the uninvited presence of the defiant Iraqi dictator. For the millions watching it all on television, images of Saddam and the U.S. air strikes in Iraq mixed with those of George Bush and Bill Clinton in rapid sequence, as if part of the same show...
Brundtland's humiliating mission is like an environmental version of the ghost of Christmas future: four years from now the Vice President may find himself in a similarly uncomfortable position, explaining to his environmental supporters why he failed to deliver on commitments made during the campaign. Just as ideologues during 12 years of Republican Administrations were thwarted by the courts and Congress from unilaterally rolling back environmental protection, Brundtland's situation illustrates how the workings of a modern democracy can also dampen the ambitions of true believers occupying the highest positions of power...