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...minority leader has been known to muse on what a Dole Cabinet might be like. But he will not say whether he will run -- not now anyway. He knows there are reasons for not running. Many Republicans believe '96 should be the time for generational change. Dole's potential rivals for the nomination are all considerably younger. Furthermore, the party's right wing -- despite Dole's current success in the health-care fight -- remains chary of him. "I'm not the darling of everyone on the right," he says. So he makes occasional concessions. Despite original misgivings, he endorsed Oliver...
...called Dalicatessens, there was little else he refused to endorse, from chocolates to perfumes. He was surrounded by fakes and crooks and married to one of the greediest harpies in Europe: Gala, who made him the indentured servant of his lost talent even / as he treated her as his muse...
...cohorts are miffed to find 99% of students as indifferent to their "genius" as ever. And, like the insecure kid whose fishing for compliments goes unanswered, Canner has moved on to the more forceful strategy of explicit boastfulness. If the rest of Harvard won't cry hosannas to his Muse, he'll just have to do it himself...
...middle of the afternoon, puffing a pipe and surveying the passing scene while listening to the music of Henry Purcell? It was Monday, the one working day he wasn't on deadline, and Murray Kempton was happy to slip off the earphones of his portable CD player and muse about Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events (Times Books; 570 pages; $27.50), a new collection of his writings...
WHEN ASKED TO MUSE ON THE avant-garde of the generation before his own, the man who became perhaps the most influential avant-garde dramatist of the 20th century savored the historical irony. "They all wanted to destroy culture," he said, "and now they're part of our heritage." The same thing happened to the father of "theater of the absurd" (he preferred the label theater of derision, saying, "It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind"). In 1950, Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano opened in Paris to catcalls, and a performance...