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Just as the ceremony ended, the sun came out, an omen that did not fail to cheer Rosovsky. "It's a terrific sign. Everything is fine...
...transition is any omen, the Clinton Administration may become the leakiest ever. Cabinet appointments have almost all been so authoritatively predicted in advance that the actual announcements are far overshadowed by the next round of hot tips. On Thursday, Clinton named Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Jesse Brown, a wounded Vietnam veteran, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Their appointments were only the No. 3 news item out of Little Rock that day. No. 1: Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, will...
...thing, director Rob Reiner's realization of this passage is an omen of all the crispness to come in an extraordinarily well-made movie, which wastes no words or images in telling a conventional but compelling story. All its scenes have been polished till they shine like brass belt buckles at a regimental parade. More important, metaphorically the few good men of that drill team have attained the military ideal -- perfect order, perfect discipline. They are, for their brief moment, an impossible dream made manifest. And a vivid contrast to the rest of the action...
...what of next year? Is this last win an omen for things to come...
...family matters, indeed, cannot be overlooked. Two presidents--Andrew Jackson and Rutherford Hayes--were born after their fathers' deaths, and neither of them ever lost a presidential election. Clinton's father died before he was born--a personal tragedy for the Arkansan, to be sure, but a good political omen...