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...genre, why ask? Of course Richard will be taught a chastening lesson. These movies, despite their voyeuristic promises, are essentially moral tracts. They instruct us that he or she who aspires to unearned material and erotic goodies will be punished, that happiness lies in perfect fidelity to one's mate and to hard, honest careerism. See enough of them and you begin to think Dan Quayle owes Hollywood an apology -- and that Michael Medved might consider cooling his jets...
McKay, Poulios' running mate for co-chair,agreed that Poulios' behavior was improper...
Clinton says he will make the necessary, responsible cuts in the defense budget that Bush will not. He says he will deemphasize the Star Wars program and downsize the U.S. presence in Europe appropriately. And he and running mate Al Gore have a sensible and forward-looking plan to convert defense industries to productive elements of the civilian economy...
...press kit distributed to reporters at the Democratic National Convention shrewdly listed Elvis Aron Presley as Entertainment Coordinator, and Clinton staff I.D.s included mock-ups of the Elvis stamp with a horn-blowing Clinton replacing the King. Eager to get in on the act, running mate Al Gore began his convention speech by remarking that he never thought he would be "the warm-up act for Elvis...
Which is not to say that both men have not had more than their share of political problems. Quayle has been the brunt of jokes and criticism ever since Bush chose him, seemingly from out of nowhere, as his running mate at the 1988 convention. Quayle was too callow, some said. Too dumb, others suggested. Some experts estimate that his presence on the ticket in 1988 cost Bush as many as 3 percentage points in the popular vote. Since then, a series of flaps -- the great "potatoe" spelling bee, the anatomically correct doll that Quayle brought back from an official...