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Chase, 53, displayed the mixture of physical comedy, masterful impersonations and highbrow humor which catapulted him to fame as an original 1975 cast member of "Saturday Night Live" and then in dozens of movies, including "Caddyshack," "National Lampoon's Vacation" and the "Fletch" series...
...Clinton's guru of choice. One night a week, usually Wednesday, he leads a campaign meeting at the residence that includes the President, Vice President, Sosnik, Bob Squier (the campaign media adviser brought in by Morris and Gore), Stephanopoulos and other senior aides. Ickes apparently bridles at Morris' highbrow musing about the Hegelian dialectics of campaigns...
...Alcott's time, cheap weekly magazines regularly published sensational stories of bloodlust and scandal Authors frequently tossed off these frothy pieces to pay the bills while waiting for a publisher to accept their more highbrow works...
Palimpsest is enjoyable as a kind of highbrow gossip column (the famous names could be in boldface), but it lacks the analytical substance that one has come to expect from its author. In a lovely passage, Vidal says he learned from his grandfather ''the ability to detect the false notes in those arias that our shepherds lull their sheep with"--and in fact his story sparkles when he deftly exposes the hypocrisies of Hollywood and Washington. As a writer he is at his best as an uncompromising critic, and at one point turns his sensibility on himself with sharp-eyed...
...such highbrow language hardly captures the raw reality of Judge Ito's courtroom last week, where each day brought a new spike in the players' emotional temperatures--and further discomfited the millions of TV viewers who thought they knew what to think about O.J. Over kitchen tables, in restaurants, around office coffee machines, people debated the lawyers' opening statements, critiqued Judge Ito's style, expressed amazement over snapshots of Simpson's body offered up by the defense and photos of Simpson's socks displayed by the prosecution...