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...that Campaign Manager John Sasso phoned Dukakis in Iowa Sept. 27 to warn him that a story in the forthcoming edition of TIME identified the Dukakis campaign as the source of the video. Dukakis somewhat cryptically told Sasso to "check out" the story. But the Governor, who likes to portray himself as a hands-on manager who pays close attention to detail, overlooked one rather salient question. By his own account, he never asked Sasso if the story was true...
...field of candidates, the most he has seen during his four years on the council, stems from this change in direction. He attributed the organization's "growing popularity" to last year's campus-wide events such as the Elvis Costello concert and the Memorial Hall keg party "which helped portray the council in a very favorable light...
...news feature, "Razo Case Raises Wide Questions," Jeffrey S. Nordhaus drew on several long conversations with me and others in an effort to portray more general "Minority Plight." As I remarked to him, I was seeking to disaggregate and "complexify" the story, which was inevitably getting too long for daily jounalism. Mr. Nordhaus wrote with care and sympathy. But he reverses the races in one episode I told him. I was seeking to illustrate the ways a Black table in a House may form, and the difficulty white students or even Tutors would have in going to sit down...
Almodovar's version of homosexual love is far more adventurous and honest than any of Hollywood's tame, schmaltzy attempts to portray gay relationships such as Making Love and Personal Best. Even the recent British films by Stephen Frears, My Beautiful Launderette and Prick Up Your Ears, which dealt with homosexuality intelligently and forthrightly, shied away from exploring sexual intimacy on a par with straight films. The graphic homosexual sex in Law of Desire may seem irresponsible in light of AIDS, but in Almodovar's world, caution is irrelevant...
Biden played along but his candidacy went nowhere. So he decided to take on a different role and portray "a middle-class guy" who wasn't "big on flak jackets and tie-dye shirts" in the '60s. (Presumably because he was too busy screwing up in law school.) Now an adviser, probably Pat Caddell, is saying that Biden's latest troubles will "free" him to "get into being himself." The new self is an aggressive "populist, anti-Establishment" candidate and arch-defender of the middle class. Who knows? Maybe he'll bounce back, stay in and run a strong race...