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...Lewis, the Clinton-Gore campaign official who has perfect pitch on presidential spin, puts it this way: "Parents think it is a good idea that government helps them do this important work. To be on the side of parents, especially in households where everybody is squeezed for time and money, this is the right place...
...other crisis had been percolating for some time. The President's three democratic opponents had long talked of coalescing behind one or the other of them, and the speculation reached a fever pitch at the beginning of May. Had "they managed that," says Gorton, "it could really have killed us." A good deal of time was devoted to strategizing about how Yeltsin could stop the so-called "third force" from emerging. The two key third-force players were Grigori Yavlinsky, the leading democrat in the race, and the war hero Alexander Lebed. The team advised Yeltsin to woo his opponents...
...first of the five installations, "Hall of Whispers," is a pitch-black narrow room lined with video monitors showing black and white images of people struggling to speak through bound mouths. Muffled groans surround the viewer in the darkness. The "message" here, at least the one stated by curator Marilyn A. Zeitlin as "the frustration and vanity of communication," seems simplistically overt. But the images of the faces themselves are so interesting, so cragged with subtle shades of dark and light, depth and surface, that their collective, somewhat pat "meaning" does a disservice to their visual complexity. There is also...
...portrait of potential customers. Financial-services company Advanta underwrote the show, and 15 hotels are offering package deals that include VIP admission to the exhibit. In a broad bow to popular culture, Sandra Horrocks, the Philadelphia Museum of Art's vice president for marketing, will throw out the first pitch when the hometown Phillies play host to the Florida Marlins on the Fourth of July. Her spheroid: a vibrantly colored, vinyl-covered ball with Cezanne's signature on it that the museum is selling for an impressive...
...tunes and formats--the loose, buoyant ensembles (Moten Swing and a hypnotically undulating Pagin' the Devil), the "cutting sessions" (Yeah, Man, a fiery face-off between the tenor saxes of Redman and Craig Handy), the crescendoing call-and-response riff patterns (I Left My Baby, whipped to a fervent pitch by Curtis Fowlkes' swaggering trombone), the galloping flag wavers (Lafayette, a raucous vehicle for trumpet soloists Nicholas Payton, James Zollar and Olu Dara) and the rococo after-hours ballads (I Surrender Dear, in which James Carter tricks up his solo with so many growl tones, glissandos, squeaking harmonics and feathery...