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...than Clinton can. The President's performances these days are often subdued--seven weeks of stalling and refusing to explain his relationship with Monica Lewinsky seem to have shorted out his emotional connection to America. And now comes Travolta in Primary Colors, the Mike Nichols movie based on Joe Klein's novel about the 1992 campaign, with a portrayal so deeply and exuberantly Clintonian that it reminds you of everything you've ever loved and hated about the man. Blurring fact and fiction is old hat by now, but the hat has never fit quite so snugly. Imagine Alan...
Travolta's Jack Stanton may be comic hyperbole, but the real Clinton at his best is just as overstated--a sprawling, irreducible character who belongs not in the cramped precincts of American politics but in the wide-open fields of American fiction, which is where Klein had the good sense to put him. But though Klein left enough wiggle room for a reader to create a different character in the mind's eye, the movie allows nothing of the kind. From the very first scene, that's him up there, and it's a shock--the first of many, because...
...wish, Diesel, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan would have mail-order catalogs," Hariri says. "If they do, somebody call...
Well, not quite; the jousting just reconvened on the courthouse steps. "This is a very important victory for consumers and innovators," Klein exulted, adding that the latter would no longer "be snuffed out by Microsoft's... monopoly power. That's the way capitalism works in America...
...that is, Klein hasn't stopped them first. The antitrust chief's larger investigation remains active and aggressive; a Justice source confirms that wider anti-Microsoft action under the Sherman Act, if it comes, will probably arrive before the new operating system does. First Jackson will hear from "special master" Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard law professor whose court-ordered study of Microsoft's business practices is due in May. Around the same time, of course, Microsoft's appeal (which includes a request to have Lessig removed from the case) reaches court, and Win98 hits software shelves near...