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Along with such Clinton campaign veterans as George Stephanopoulos and Mandy Grunwald, I spend my waking hours trying to decipher a political riddle far more baffling than Hillary Clinton's uncanny knack for picking winners in the commodities markets. Who is "Anonymous," the reclusive author of Primary Colors (Random House; $24), the sensitively wrought, deftly drawn, acid-tongued political novel that is a thinly veiled re-creation of the 1992 Democratic primary race...
...read Primary Colors, I built my own code book--a list of the characters matched with their real-life counterparts. Around page 90 I gave up in exhaustion, having deciphered three dozen names (an insider's Who's Who that includes Grunwald, James Carville, Harold Ickes, David Wilhelm, Stan Greenberg, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas and Mario Cuomo). Some of the portraits are so deliciously vicious, I can only assume the author is settling personal scores. Take this description of the fictional stand-in for Hillary's much feared close friend Susan Thomases: "She was awful beyond imagining...
...TIME political correspondent, and in New York City. Actually, he did feel a little lost after turning in his first story for TIME back in 1978. The lead of the piece, which began "Prior to taking office, Jimmy Carter...," was circled by then editor-in-chief Henry Grunwald (who had been TIME managing editor No. 9), who scrawled in the margin, "Prior is a God-awful word...
...answered; there must be thousands who assail the White House with well-meaning albeit foolish recommendations. But I cannot help thinking that had the U.S. followed such a policy a year ago, thousands of innocent lives might have been saved and the war might be over by now. WALTER GRUNWALD Denver...
...willdeliver the commencement addressat Dartmouth College. White House spokesman Mike McCurry downplayed the coincidence today, but allowed: "It is New Hampshire and we are approaching 1996, and he will probably see some people he would like to have as supporters when the New Hampshire primary occurs."Campaign consultant Mandy Grunwald, a key1992 Clinton strategist, noted today that President Clinton is likely to get a lot more attention thanks to Newt's presence...