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...enough for the President, who started one-to-one meetings with Democratic legislators to get them to support the bill while pursuing a furious counteroffensive that includes commercials purchased by the Democratic National Committee, aired on CNN. At rallies last week in New Jersey and on the White House lawn, Clinton pounded the podiums with calls for the G.O.P. to get with the program. "If Bob Dole and the special interests win," Vice President Al Gore told another crowd on Capitol Hill, "millions of Americans will lose...
...distress call about the shooting, they encountered him walking down a highway away from the clinic. He had more than a dozen shotgun shells strapped to his leg, ankle and pocket. He refused to tell them where the gun was, police said. (They found one on the clinic lawn.) But he did say, "I know one thing: there won't be any more babies killed today...
...hipster's stylish alienation was irresistible to youth, for whom style is the best defense against anxiety and alienation is the natural state. For suburban teens in particular, hipness became what romance novels were for Madame Bovary: an antidote to the featureless local realities. In subdivisions where the lawn sprinklers went back and forth, back and forth -- the metronomes of the trudging suburban eternity -- a Bob Dylan album and a late-night movie performance of Putney Swope could seem like blows against the Empire...
Translating LA has chapters on Forest Lawn and the earthquakes, the misery of the city"s black ghettos, the unspeakable wealth of Beverly Hills. As a writer seeking to capture the spirit of place, Peter Theroux is a kinder, gentler clone of his older brother Paul (The Happy Isles of Oceania, Riding the Iron Rooster.) . For all their sparkle, the latter's travel books are suffused with a sour misanthropy : the natives are usually too noisy or too smelly or otherwise lacking in the finer human attributes...
...faded outside, and the lights over the South Lawn came on as the discussion wound down. "There's nothing more important," Kennedy said quietly as he got up to leave. But what of the final commitment to go for the moon? I asked as he left the room. "Wait here," he said, beckoning Sorensen to follow him into the Oval Office. A few minutes later, Sorensen came out. "We are going to the moon," he said. So simple. But the decision committed the greatest power on earth to the unknown...