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...Likud's greatest obstacle is his relative inexperience; his only public service has been as charge at the Israeli embassy in Washington, U.N. ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister and Knesset member. To make the 47-year-old candidate appear more statesmanlike, Likud ads place him in a wood-paneled, Oval Office-like setting. Playing off Netanyahu's military stint as a commander in an elite special-forces unit, the Likud zeroes in on his seriousness about security. "Many of you are afraid to get on a bus," he tells the viewers, referring to repeated Palestinian suicide attacks. "I'm not prepared...
PHIL GRAMM With a skill that eluded him during Oval Office bid, he creates an issue: the "Clinton...
...woman is waiting for death; her head is a sheep's skull in a jar on whose front is pasted a photo of herself when young; she wears a necklace of memories: jars containing gilded mementos of prayer, marriage, long-gone sexual love. The repeated forms of oval frames, a sewing box and tabletops combine with the big curve of the screen behind the chair to give the piece a strong binding rhythm at odds with the poor shriveled figure. All is dust and mummification except for one touch of life: a real canary cheeping in its cage...
HOSPITALIZED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, ex-Oval Office seeker; for a bone-marrow transplant from his sister to fight infections brought on by his lymph cancer, now in remission; in Boston...
...mature over-achievers that we all know and love as friends here, the presidency seemed to offer that. Besides being confirmed as among the top of their class, what little kid wouldn't want to plop his or her feet up on the desk of the Oval Office and smoke a nice wooden pipe...