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Fantasies seep into facts. Entertainment and journalism drift back and forth across the borders. The bicameral arrangement of culture and politics dissolves. The baby of the (nonexistent) Murphy Brown flies out of its cradle and hovers like an illicit pink cherub over the American presidential succession...
...despite the camouflage, if he were taken prisoner by the Daily News, his cover would be blown when he couldn't recite the rules of stickball. His wardrobe is suspicious as well. With his double-breasted jackets, pink suspenders and purple-striped shirts, he dresses as if Paul Stuart grabbed him by the French cuffs when he was young and has not let go. The burden he has decided to take on in life -- to be like everyone else when he so obviously isn't -- requires immense energy and makes him seem hyperactive at times. That he engages so earnestly...
...doomsday scenario than Bernard T. Gallagher. Known to his friends as Bud, he was a Strategic Air Command pilot and served as director of Mount Weather for 25 years, until his retirement last March. A robust 70 years old, he wears a white cowboy hat, drives a hot-pink '65 Mustang convertible and is an unabashed patriot. As an "atomic-cloud sampler," he flew through the billowing mushrooms of 13 U.S. nuclear blasts in 1952 and 1953. To measure the radiation passing through him, he swallowed an X-ray plate coated with Vaseline and suspended by a string that hung...
...those alternatives vanished last week as Ross Perot shut down his campaign with all the brutality of a plant manager pink-slipping loyal workers at Christmas. His method confirmed the worst assessments of his character. Without warning, Perot stranded the millions who had poured themselves into his effort, whom he had repeatedly promised to "serve" selflessly if only they would follow his lead...
Best signs waved during Clinton's acceptance speech: (3) From our favorite runner up's delegation, "We never surrender--1-800-926-1112." (2) "Here's your pink slip, George." (1) "Welcome Ross Perot Supporters--If you're still sore, vote Clinton/Gore...