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...songs are interrupted in the middle by spoken anecdotes, speculations, or quandaries. Sometimes he stops playing just to talk out an idea. Guthrie's colloquial idiom and sense of aphoristic wisdom are, perhaps, of the Prairie Home Companion school, but his repertoire is not without the socially conscious ire of a draft-dodger. Guthrie is a drawling American peacenik with teeth...
...Clinton administration can barely conceal that it is not opposed to Boutros-Ghali based on ideological reasons or because of disagreements with the policies he has pursued and endorsed. No, the Clinton administration refuses to support Boutros-Ghali because it is afraid of arousing the ire of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a hard-line reactionary whose world view has scarcely changed since the dawn of the Cold War. The many resignations of prominent Clinton staffers also reflect the President's political weakness. Granted, some, such as Energy Secretary Hazel R. O'Leary, have been...
...Schoen polled four different budget-battle "outcome models" to see which worked best for Clinton. Penn was heartened to see that voters would blame Gingrich's "train-wreck" scenario--a standoff that shut down the Federal Government--on the Republicans. Still, the President was concerned that the public ire would bruise him, as well. A few days after the first shutdown began, Clinton showed his political director, Doug Sosnik, an independent poll that indicated most Americans blamed the G.O.P., just as Penn had predicted. "Penn showed you that poll two weeks ago," the affable Sosnik reminded the President. Clinton laughed...
...with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection--plus more goddamned nonsense," Brinkley wonderfully declaimed. Perhaps it is due to the fact that Brinkley is to retire after tomorrow's "This Week" that the heroic news man unleashed such ire at the Politco of Politicos, at a guy who might just as well have run the Undergraduate Council. It couldn't just have been Clinton who upset Brinkley. Surely that infamous Eli, George Herbet Walker Bush, could easily have earned the epithet of a "bore." It was the false objectivity...
...Nation," stolen from network headquarters in true Michael Moore fashion, played on the screen while Moore signed copies of his book. In one segment, Civil War veterans re-enacted "great battles" of the past. In another, Janeane Garofolo invaded the private beaches of Greenwich, Connecticut, rousing the ire of its inbred residents; one of them denied being prejudiced against Garofolo's black friends, remarking that Greenwich people were very much in touch with minorities--they employed them in their homes. Although his audience needed no converting, Moore's acute observations and outrageous humor were rewarded by an enthusiastic standing ovation...