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...done deal that the Democratic Party will hold its 1996 presidential convention in Chicago, its first there since Yippie riots over Vietnam and delegates' turmoil marred the '68 nomination of Hubert Humphrey. An aide to Mayor Richard Daley, whose father held office the last time around, told TIME Chicago correspondent Julie Grace the decision is a matter of wrapping up a few easy details. Chicago bid $32 million to be the host, beating out rivals New York City, New Orleans and San Antonio, Texas, for a possible $100 million economic return. Grace says David Wilhelm, a former operative of Daley...
...when he tried to write "serious" scores? A lecherous bisexual who alienated his wife, confounded his children and appalled his friends with his calculated program of artful dissipation? Classical music's shining American champion, familiar to millions from his television proselytizing? By the time the reader finishes slogging through Humphrey Burton's exhaustively researched but strangely noncommittal biography, Leonard Bernstein (Doubleday; 594 pages; $25), he still hasn't got a clue...
...advertising man named H.R. Haldeman, he finally learned how to make effective use of television: not in speeches or press conferences but answering questions from "typical voters" and then carefully editing the results. If that was artificial, so in a way was the whole 1968 campaign. Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey dared not repudiate Johnson's doomed Vietnam policy and talked instead about "the politics of joy." Nixon, who had agreed with Johnson's escalation of the war and hoped to court segregationist votes in the South, spoke mainly in code words about "peace with honor" in Vietnam...
...category. Screenwriter Francois Truffaut pioneered French new Wave film, and "Breathless" exemplifies the genre. Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo fleshes out the New Wave hero flawlessly by shattering the image of the typical leading man. One scene shows Belmondo's character, the fugitive Michel Poiccard, staring at a poster of Humphrey Bogart for minutes on end. But Poiccard's unglamorous criminal record's appetite for sex and apathy for everything else render him the opposite of the tough-but-noble Bogart-esque hero...
...walk into the darkened room filled with black tables, flickering candles and strong coffee. A friend waves suggestively through the wispy smoke. You're not sure, but that man in the fedora hat slouched in the far corner could be Humphrey Bogart...