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Understanding Adam is a tough task for those hobbled by age or taste. The typical Sandler comedy (not this year's amiable The Wedding Singer, in which he plays a borderline grownup, but Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and the new film) is about a nerdy sociopath who learns to channel his rage into an acceptable format: winning a spelling bee, playing golf or tackling football players. "You don't have what they call the social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which...
...Powell, Howard Baker, Frank Carlucci and Ken Duberstein did then, the presence of Democratic veterans such as Leon Panetta in a return engagement, George Mitchell, Republican Pentagon chief William Cohen, perhaps outgoing Florida Governor Lawton Chiles would reassure the nation and Congress that the President is running a grownup shop, not a frat house or a cathouse, and would have their help in doing the nation's business...
...Clinton went into Friday morning already reeling. Whatever his shortcomings as a person, many fellow Democrats figured long ago, he was at least a gifted athlete, an ambidextrous operator who could caper and maneuver and keep his feet dry. It would be nice, of course, to have a grownup in the Oval Office, but voters have settled twice now for something less than that because he seemed so good at the job that kept tripping others up. And yet here he was, with his very survival at stake--the thing he cared most about--and he suddenly couldn't find...
EVELYN LIEBERMAN She emerges from the Starr report as the only White House grownup on intern patrol...
...uses a couple dozen aliases, but it's not as if there's no upside. You can torch a neighbor's house, terrorize a girlfriend, become a bona fide problem child, and your mother's in no position to pass judgment. And should you choose "criminal" as your grownup occupation, it's the ultimate flattery...