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Perot's TV manner has its engaging side, sprinkled with the chummy colloquialisms of a small-town businessman ("You follow me?" "Pretty simple stuff, right?"). But his humble routine is growing less convincing with exposure. One questioner compared Perot to Jesse Jackson -- both have been criticized for lack of office-holding experience -- and asked why the Texas billionaire was any more qualified to be President. "I don't claim that I am," Perot replied. "That's up to the people." Jennings prodded gently, "But surely you think you're qualified." Perot's response: "I'm not going to sit here...
Lewis' play, in the modern budget-minded manner, has just two characters, the writer and an even more unsuccessful photographer (Charles Cioffi). They need each other's respect. Paradoxically, they also need each other's scorn because they are so disappointed that cynicism is the only thing left to trust. They squabble over money and women, but the big blowup is over a moral failing shared with almost every fictive writer: he has "stolen" his own % life, and that of his unknowing and unwilling friend, to transmute into art. Pacino radiates the desperation of a man whose last possession...
...that the remainder henceforth will concentrate on economic studies, background investigations of Western & investors and similarly innocuous tasks. General Vadim Kirpichenko, a KGB veteran who is a key adviser to the head of the SVR, says the service intends to behave in a more "civilized" manner and its agents will eschew blackmail, the use of drugs and other traditional techniques employed to compromise and recruit foreign agents...
Unlike Rollins, whose help Perot enlisted, Jordan volunteered his services several weeks ago after watching Perot on Larry King's TV show. More cerebral than his aw-shucks manner might suggest, Jordan went to work for Carter in the late 1960s and drafted the 1972 memo that served as the blueprint for Carter's march from Georgian obscurity to the White House. Carter's campaign as an ) outsider running against Washington in 1976, notes his longtime friend Bert Lance, is reminiscent of Perot's pose as a new broom unsullied by politics...
...says that she has sometimes been treated in a patronizing manner because of her religion. "People tend to think that because I am Catholic I buy hook, line and sinker everything the Pope ever said," says Teichert...