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...Dick Cheney can't be beat. Only Alexander has worked as hard as Cheney laying the groundwork for 1996. But the former Defense Secretary is the very definition of dull, and as one big-state G.O.P. chairman says, "We saw with Bush that you need as much spark as heft if you hope to win." Cheney makes Baker look charismatic, and this ex-everything is a world-class fund raiser. Both Cheney and Baker will share a slogan -- "Bring Back the Grownups" -- but since their best credentials are outside the realm of domestic politics, they might not triumph unless...
...welfare and lobbying reform and some further-reaching proposals (like abolishing the Education and Energy departments) to prove he's serious about downsizing government. That course could let him posture again as an outsider agitating for change, but those efforts might eventually be seen as small bore. For greater heft, Clinton would be wise to embrace the option Rivlin clearly prefers...
...matters of the heart. Most of his songs, like the sharp blues workout Cringemaker and the lithe My Waterloo, plumb tales of love gone sour. Even though Becker's melodies sometime seem stark and his voice is a mere bleat, his ear for catchy grooves gives Whack soulfulness and heft. Down in the Bottom, the CD's finest cut, chugs forward on a rhythm smart enough to make Smokey Robinson proud and maybe even cool enough to have made Charlie Parker feel like soloing. Don't ever expect the jazz-pop fusion of, say, Yanni to put you in mind...
...players are all girls (A League of Their Own). Or your girlfriend is a fish (Splash). Your wife has died (Sleepless in Seattle). You think you're dying (Joe Versus the Volcano). You are dying (Philadelphia). Whether the dilemma is fantastic or tragic, Hanks gives it an apt, gentle heft...
...Quality Merchandise label is stamped all over Germinal. Gerard Depardieu, who heads the film's huge cast, is the one French actor with worldwide heft and clout. Director Claude Berri is among France's toniest auteurs and producers. Now he and Gerard Brach have adapted Emile Zola's sprawling indictment of a novel. The result is dispiriting: a minor work on a huge canvas...