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Director James Cameron gazes intently at a small monitor displaying footage of a recently shot scene from his film in progress, Titanic. The sound hasn't been added yet, but the faces of the doomed passengers indicate that they know the outlook is grim aboard the supposedly unsinkable ship. A priest is leading a prayer, and as his lips move, Cameron murmurs the lines, "Hail Mary, full of grace...
Paul Manafort, a Washington lobbyist who had run the convention for Dole, picked up the flag after Sipple left the field. The picture was grim. After Labor Day, Bob Dole was worse off than when he started. By early September, according to his own poll, Dole was actually 6 points behind where he was in August. Manafort drafted a 20-page memo dated Sept. 5 titled "Dole Campaign Strategy Document," in which he wrote, "The strategy for the campaign must be finalized now...Otherwise, we will be adrift without a compass...
...real leader might begin by ending this disingenuous crusade to censor music and the arts. Inadequate education, poor health services, grim housing, scant job opportunities and brutal, racist cops are the cause of urban violence and decay, not rap lyrics. Stop using the arts as a scapegoat...
...seeing that Bill Clinton was the most intensely physical flesh presser since Lyndon Johnson (and he's in better shape than L.B.J. was). Clinton plunged in ecstatically--a nightmare for the Secret Service, whose taut, grim faces and darkly frisking eyes contrasted almost hilariously with the happy, dazzled faces of the faithful. Clinton's long, curiously angled fingers (like those of E.T.) reached yearningly, heliotropically, blindly into crowds (swat! swat! on the thigh), from which he emerged flushed and dazed and looking 10 years old. Assembling trivia, one noticed that Clinton, a big man, wears enormous suits that produce...
DIED. BOB GRIM, 66, former Yankee pitcher and last American League rookie to win 20 games in a season; in Shawnee, Kansas. Grim, who pitched in two World Series, suffered a heart attack after throwing snowballs with neighborhood children, his family said...