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...register by mail, at a variety of public buildings and bureaus, and when applying for a driver's permit. But the 268-to-153 vote fell well short of the two-thirds majority needed to override an all but certain presidential veto. "Motor-voter," said top White House lobbyist Nick Calio, "is dead in the driveway...
Their friends note that temperamentally, the couple balance each other well. Mary is the classic overachiever with plenty of ambition and the kind of bottomless stamina that successful politicians often have. Nick, observes Irish Senator David Norris, has an incisive mind but appreciates "good food and good grog and enjoying life at an easier pace." The Robinsons guard the privacy of their children, Tessa, 19, William, 18, and Aubrey, 11. When Robinson visited Belfast in February, security was tight, but the word leaked to the press. Aubrey missed his customary perfect score in current events because, alone of his class...
Like a superhero for cinema, Batman Returns arrives in the nick of time. Movies are in big trouble. The magic is gone; the danger is missing. Genres that vitalized the box office a decade ago -- the sci-fi epic, the horror movie, the adult comedy -- look sapped. Top directors like Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese remake their own or other people's movies. So does everybody else. Lethal Weapon 3 and Patriot Games and Sister Act may bring millions into a cool theater on a hot evening, but are audiences getting the fresh kick that good films are supposed...
...Batman TV series, Burgess Meredith played Penguin as a kind of deranged F.D.R. This was not for DeVito. "I didn't see myself playing a weird Nick Charles with a martini glass and a tuxedo," he says. "It just didn't tickle my fancy." Then Burton showed him a painting he had done of "a toddler with a big round head and big eyes and a protrusion in the nose and mouth and a bulbous body with little appendages. And there was a caption that said, 'My name is Jimmy, but they call me the hideous penguin...
Gaines sold Mad in 1961 but stayed as publisher and paterfamilias through a succession of corporate overseers (including its current owner, Time Warner Inc.). Gaines, says editor Nick Meglin, who started at Mad in 1956, was "a very, very casual person -- which is a euphemism for being a slob. He became uncomfortable if people started to wear shirts and ties and pinstripe suits, because he figured they were looking to become corporate creeps, as he would call them." The money saved on wardrobe went to subsidize Gaines' various follies, including restaurant feasts, his collection of small-scale Statues of Liberty...