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...endured being cast as menacing shadows at the edge of bad dreams. What has changed is that political rhetoric and pop culture are increasingly willing to exploit these shadows. When George Bush's 1988 campaign needed a name and a face for the bogeyman, it came up with Willie Horton. Some black rappers have turned the stereotype to their own profit, striking "gangsta" poses -- in black knit caps. Susan Smith didn't have to use much imagination. She just had to reach for the available nightmares...
...team of high-priced packagers -- Ken Kachigian and Lyn Nofziger (both political consultants to Ronald Reagan), the formerly disgraced Ed Rollins (who claimed, then later denied that he paid black ministers for their indifference to help his New Jersey gubernatorial candidate) and admaker Larry McCarthy (of Willie Horton fame). They have made him virtually tamperproof. Republican Congressman Robert Lagomarsino couldn't crack his veneer when the tall Texan appeared out of nowhere to beat him in 1992. Nor could Huffington's Senate primary opponent, former Congressman William Dannemeyer. Huffington sent his wife Arianna Stassinopoulos to debate Dannemeyer -- six times -- instead...
Brown's digging, however, can be dirty and deadly for his opponents. Brown achieved fame as creator of the infamous Willie Horton ads used in the Bush campaign against Michael Dukakis. Now head of the conservative, Virginia-based group Citizens United, Brown has become a major source of Whitewater information for reporters and, he says, congressional investigators. His group's membership has boomed under Clinton, Brown contends. Last summer, he started a monthly newsletter called ClintonWatch (annual subscription: $29), which contains items ranging from Whitewater rumors and innuendo to right-wing critiques of Clinton's agenda. In his quest...
...including Alfred Hitchcock's small-town nail biter Shadow of a Doubt (1943), which featured Carey as a G-man on the trail of amiable psychopath Joseph Cotten. Carey is perhaps most beloved by viewers of daytime television, where for three decades he played the perpetually understanding Dr. Tom Horton on nbc's Days of Our Lives -- and provided the show's trademark voice-over: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives...
...Needham is a science museum connoisseur, and prefers the Museum of Comparative Zoology to the Boston Science Museum because of the sheer number of animals on display. "I love birds," she said. "Mom, look at this guy. He looks like he has a wart." Twelve-year-old Michael Horton likes trilobites. "It's neat to see fossils and the stones they were fossilized in and their texture," he said...