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...strategists in Washington today are those who are blowing with the wind. Nowadays, there is no serious talk of liberal values versus conservative values. Suddenly, there is a whole new breed of politician being born inside the beltway which is neither liberal nor conservative--it is the platypus-like centrist...
...platypus is an animal with some duck-like and some beaver-like properties, but it is neither. Similarly, if one plays close attention, in the past few months Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, have subtly shifted their positions and have begun to sound very much unlike their predecessors or even themselves just a few years ago. In the last few months, the two candidates have increasingly displayed their proclivity to say anything, do anything to please the voters. While such malleability is not necessarily a new phenomenon in the American elections, what sets this election apart is the fact that...
...bringing something new to TV. The centerpiece of Paramount's schedule is Voyager, the fourth installment in the seemingly indestructible Star Trek series. The rest of UPN's schedule ranges from a mystery-adventure series, Marker, starring teen heartthrob Richard Grieco, to a pair of frenetic Fox- style sitcoms, Platypus Man, in which comedian Richard Jeni plays the oversexed host of a TV cooking show, and Pig Sty, about five twentysomething men who share a New York City apartment. The four sitcoms being introduced by Warner also have the familiar whiff of Fox: former Fox leading men Robert Townsend (Townsend...
...contrast, A Way in the World is introspective. By grafting scenes from his life to the severed dreams of old acquaintances and failed New World adventurers, Naipaul makes some odd reconnections to his past. The result is a literary platypus, a species that should not exist but does -- not beautiful but undeniably part of a major writer's distinctive evolution...
...admiration of the animals featured. Founded by Louis Agassiz in 1859 at the height of the craze to classify all of nature, the museum set out to acquire a specimen of everything in the natural world. The result is an incredible, albeit slightly dusty, collection--from the duck-billed platypus to the yak--displayed in wooden and glass cases under fluorescent light...