Word: mates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Perot's centurions, some of whom are on his payroll. Three days later, the mercurial billionaire announced that his followers around the country, having found Bush and Clinton wanting, were demanding his active candidacy. Perot twanged that he was "honored to accept their request." Then he introduced his running mate, retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale ("a hero's hero"), and only vaguely alluded to his tough economic recovery plan. As in the initial phase of his campaign, Perot played most heavily on his status as a nonpolitician: "The people want a new political climate where the system does not attract...
...economy ahead of their worries about the planet. Thus the Bush campaign is attempting to paint Bill Clinton as a hostage to environmental extremists who would sacrifice American jobs to mollify the tree huggers. Point man in this assault: Vice President Dan Quayle. His main target: Clinton's running mate, Al Gore...
...just like Pinocchio." A Democratic statement accuses the President of "intentionally lying to win the election." Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater contends that Clinton's "regard for honesty and veracity is so low that he has no business calling anybody else a liar." Al Gore, Clinton's running mate, describes G.O.P. campaign strategy as a "big-lie technique." Dan Quayle argues that detractors are lying about his position on single motherhood...
...FAVORITE mouth in movies, and a spirit to match; we'll happily watch her for the next 40 years. Matt Dillon is perfecting a comic shagginess. Funny Jeremy Piven steals a scene at a check-out counter. The other actors in SINGLES are stuck with playing cliches -- twentynothings. They mate, they muse, they inhabit soap-opera plots. Meet urban planner Campbell Scott ("a realist slash dreamer"), Greenpeacenik Kyra Sedgwick ("This whole decade is going to have to be about cleaning up"), maitre d' Jim True ("I live my life like a French movie"). Writer-director Cameron Crowe's movie lives...
...ROADS, SAME DESTINATION. After Clinton last week expressed support for Bush's no-fly zone in Iraq, his running mate grabbed the microphone to make a politically adroit addendum. Gore pointed out that Bush helped create the problem by allowing Saddam Hussein to continue his internal air war against the Shi'ites and Kurds after the liberation of Kuwait. This was a small but telling illustration of how Gore buttresses Clinton on two issues where the Arkansas Governor is weak: foreign policy and the environment...