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...President far more than the invisible-man version perfected by Bush. The difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle and his advisers decided that inactivity was the biggest risk...
...what made him feel like a retrograde stuffed shirt was less lethal but daunting things. Cacophonies of competing phone companies, and car and poolside cellulars, have not yet proliferated in Paris. It is in California, not the Dordogne, where your teenager phones you and then puts you on hold. Similarly, Europeans remember when their films were the risque ones. Hah! Now . the show is on the other foot. Europeans at the TV children's hour would be aghast at the torrent of video violence, the Tampax-machine gags on Murphy Brown, or the 27 -- count 'em -- condom jokes...
TALES FROM THE CRYPT (HBO, June 10, 9:30 p.m.). Those scary old E.C. comics inspired three horror tales, each directed by a Hollywood heavyweight: Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future), Walter Hill (48 Hrs.) and Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon...
...chance of curbing crime as a schoolmarm pleading with Jesse James to just say no to bank robbery. For starters, Bush backed away from converting a temporary ban on the importation of assault-style rifles into a prohibition on the domestic manufacture of such weapons. Three-quarters of these lethal firearms are made in the U.S. Instead, Bush would outlaw only the manufacture of magazines that hold 15 or more rounds. Gun-control advocates and many police organizations argue that Bush's program falls far short of what is needed to keep lethal semiautomatics out of the hands of trigger...
Something similar might be said of Hollywood this summer -- the so-called summer of the sequels. Between now and August, moviegoers will be offered up seconds of Ghostbusters and Lethal Weapon, a third Karate Kid, fifths of Star Trek and A Nightmare on Elm Street, an eighth Friday the 13th and, for the 17th time around, James Bond, in Licensed to Kill...