Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bob Dole's pile of potential vice presidents is growing, and the latest to be added is Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, a man who seems to fit the bill on just about all the dream qualifications: a young but experienced, conservative anti-abortion Catholic. At 47, Nickles has a solid conservative record on both social and fiscal issues; in 1992, he served as platform committee chair at the Republican National Convention and helped defeat an effort by moderates to soften the party's anti-abortion platform plank. But Nickles' abortion stance apparently has not deterred him from reveling...
...characters aren't so much bad or wooden--even that would grant some substance--as unbearable. The plot wanders around, entangles itself, and becomes that pile of spaghetti that you can't pick up no matter how hard you try. Even the editing borders on the incoherent at times (or does that mean it's good...
Especially since the separation, the boys' leisure life follows two strikingly different tracks. With Charles it's off to one of the family estates. Sandringham, a vast Victorian pile in Norfolk, is a plinker's paradise stocked with a variety of game birds. Like his father, Wills is an enthusiastic shot. At Balmoral, where an aggregation of royals spend the late summer, there are moors to explore. During these times, the brothers are looked after by Tiggy Legge-Bourke, a plump, cheerful young woman--"a jolly, hockey-sticks sort of person," as she has been described--who has aroused Diana...
That's a great pile of narrative nuts and bolts and, dutifully sorting through it, Bergman forgets to explain persuasively what a nice girl like Erin--smart, spunky and a former FBI employee--is doing in a dump called the Eager Beaver, taking off her clothes for a living. Worse, he misses Hiaasen's strength: setting mean-funny characters spinning through lowlife milieus. Yes, Burt Reynolds has some dirty, lively moments as a crooked, sex-starved Congressman. But the crazy, nothing-to-lose anarchy of people living below the margin and beyond the fringe is not within Bergman's fastidious...
...pages of their own that turned the Republican version upside down. The reappearing billing records, for instance, are laid to a confused assistant and a White House construction crew. Because G.O.P. members could find no hint of wrongdoing by the President, the minority report charges, they decided to pile on Hillary...