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...fans of Oprah and Geraldo likely to be prepared for Ta-Har, a self- described high priest of the Black Israelites. He too has a talk show, It's Time to Wake Up, which airs every other Friday night in New York's Westchester County. But his tactics are, shall we say, more direct. On one show he wielded a baseball bat and delivered a prophecy: "We're going to be beating the hell out of you white people . . . We're going to take your little children and dash them against the stones...
Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State are an odd couple. The President has never met a crowd he believed impervious to his smarts and charm; he is never more alive than in front of the cameras as the Oprah of health care and unemployment. Warren Christopher, a natural introvert old enough to be Clinton's father, glides into a room as silently as a monk. His gravelly monotone and wrinkled poker face give nothing away, his mobile eyes are friendly but curiously unreadable. His Establishment-lawyer virtues come not from the era of MTV but from the days...
...Clinton has resisted naming a Shirley Temple Black as an ambassador or an Arnold Schwarzenegger to a presidential commission. But he needs to prove that Roger Clinton got all the rock-star genes in the family and that he intends to govern more like Harry Truman than Oprah Winfrey on wheels. The most perceptive question pollsters ask is whether the respondent believes that the President cares about people like you. Unless Clinton is pursuing a 40% strategy, he might consider spending more time in Arkansas than in L.A. And in a barber chair, not a traffic-stopping runway salon...
...sheer promotional chutzpah, Los Angeles' KABC-TV wins the Emmy: following Oprah Winfrey's high-rated interview with Michael Jackson in February, the station turned its entire 11 p.m. newscast (save for a few minutes of sports and weather) into a special report on Jackson. The end of local TV news as we know it? Depends on how you look at it; ratings for the show soared to nearly four times the newscast's usual figures...
...battle for the President's metabolism was far from over. Instead the final week of Clinton's first 100 days resembled a special edition of an Oprah Winfrey show on "Presidents Who Try to Do Too Much and the People Who Love Them." Clinton's desire to accomplish five or six major legislative initiatives this year galvanized Democrats in Congress, Cabinet officers and White House aides into intervening with the policy-addicted President. A show of force, went the thinking, might budge Clinton into lightening his legislative load. Otherwise, Clinton's many cherished proposals might...