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...Florida Democrats' convention, Rodham assured state party officials that he had his sister's support. Palm Beach County Democratic leader Ted Brabham (who co-chaired the state's Clinton for President effort in 1992) then pledged $3,000 for a poll to test Hugh's appeal. Another Florida politico advised Hugh that he must prove his independence by differing with his sister about something. Hugh bravely chose NAFTA...
While most insiders consider insiderdom so distasteful that they try to bury it under a thick layer of gloss, I almost envy the access to information that members of what Newsweek's Meg Greenfield calls the "politico-journalistic elite" enjoy. I'll admit the possibility that I'm not asking the right questions of my interviews or understanding the full meaning of their replies. But seasoned reporters tell me that wading through ten minutes of "squishy" chaff to get a few sentences of pith isn't an unusual experience here...
...friend the painter Jean Fautrier, what was he up to? Ironizing, certainly, on the idea of the portrait as effigy of virtue. But also -- despite his often repeated claim to reject tradition absolutely -- paying complete homage to an earlier French artist: Honore Daumier, whose tiny clay effigies of politico-literary notables known as Les Celebrites du Juste-Milieu, wizened, compressed and distorted, are the obvious and inescapable grandfathers of all Dubuffet's turnip...
Campaigning on "perseverance and hard work," Beys tried to downplay his past record, which is about as spotty as a student politico's can be. Through Beys' efforts, the council incurred a loss of over $10,000 on last spring's De La Soul concert. Beys also encouraged the council to endorse a for-profit party organized by his friends...
...hokum: exactly the same changes of style occurred in cities, like Olympia, that were run by tyrants. The fact that modern Greeks apparently want to believe it -- this being a time of superchauvinism in Greece, as in other Balkan countries -- means nothing, except in the scheme of simplistic politico-cultural fantasy. You might as well claim that Abstract Expressionism was "caused" by the election of Harry Truman. Nevertheless, such is the show's political motive, and it seems a poor pretext for taking great art and jetting it to America like so many get-well cards, for the sake...