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These two words (the name of Clinton's chief campaign guru) are shorthand for the proposition that Clinton's apparently winning re-election strategy is essentially to become a Republican. Clinton's conservative opponents see this as both an explanation and a consolation: even if he wins, they are prepared to claim a moral victory. There is obviously something to this, but there is a large pshaw factor as well. "Capture the center" is the usual game in politics, and Republicans have played it skillfully over the years. Once again, there seems to be a feeling that for a Democrat...
...could be argued that what they were really doing was hitting the default key. As values guru Bill Bennett puts it, "You've got to go to places where Bill Clinton can't go." For the President to utter the words "middle-class tax cut" would amount to what Dole communications director John Buckley calls "revisiting the scene of the crime...He can chase us down several alleys. He cannot chase us down the tax-cut alley...
...blockbuster movies; they make Blockbuster movies. Somebody's got to fill the store shelves, and the major studios simply don't produce enough junk. That's where DTVs come in; they are the drive-in movies of the '90s. Says Michael Weldon, author of Psychotronic Video Guide and the guru of gross-out: "Just because most of these films are bad doesn't mean that others aren't excellent, or at least better than what's in theaters...
Dresner had another connection that would prove useful later on. In the late 1970s and early '80s, he had joined with Dick Morris to help Bill Clinton get elected Governor of Arkansas. As Clinton's current political guru, Morris became the middleman on those few occasions when the Americans sought the Administration's help in Yeltsin's re-election drive. So while Clinton was uninvolved with Yeltsin's recruitment of the American advisers, the Administration knew of their existence--and although Dresner denies dealing with Morris, three other sources have told Time that on at least two occasions the team...
Eight years ago, Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe, sold his interest in the rock 'n' roll restaurant chain for $107 million, gave most of his money to charity and went to study with a guru in Puttaparthi, India, a remote city that is probably one of the few places on the globe where there isn't a Hard Rock Cafe. Music had become too corporate for Tigrett's liking; rock songs were turning up in cola commercials, beer companies were sponsoring concert tours. Tigrett wanted to get away from it all, find an ashram and meditate...