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...that he's not buying what they are selling. But in the process the press should not overblow each revelation week by week. If it does, the public will tune out, as it did in Whitewater. This is not to say that the White House doesn't smell like Gucci Gulch. Nor should it go unpunished if it takes in improper contributions (and let's hold the Republicans or Dole to the same standard). The fascination with the latest White House paper chase only gives Republicans cover for avoiding the larger issue of campaign-finance reform. Just eight Republican Senators...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "It's wrong for someone to be driving around in a Land Rover, wearing Gucci shoes and saying, 'I'm an environmentalist because I went camping last night...
...want the striped bass," he'd say. "The fish they serve in this place haven't been in the water since the Great Flood. Waiter, bring him the rib roast. Well done. Just burn her up. And don't go sprinkling on any of those Gucci spices of yours. He wants an honest piece of meat. O.K., next order...
...making as influencing decision making." It's not the urge to hold power but the desire to nuzzle it--to whisper in the right ear or lead "the conversation" that the powerful attend to--that gives Washington its distinctive social landscape, where Arianna Huffingtons bloom along the edges of Gucci Gulch...
...while Payless ShoeSource closes or relocates some 10% of its 4,500 discount stores, Gucci can't keep enough of its $295 high-heel pumps in stock. Nor has business slowed at Geary's Beverly Hills in that California city, where tableware goes for $1,000 a setting. Geary's wrapped up its best fall/Christmas season ever last year. Crows president Bruce Meyer: "Our customers want something to separate them from the crowd...