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...close as possible to the intersection of two powerful psychosocial forces. One is the Vector of Incompetence: if you can't hit a decent forehand or chip shot or jog half a mile without seeing spots, do you take yet another futile lesson or try once again to puff yourself into condition? No, you buy a new racquet, or set of irons, or a frightfully expensive pair of illusion-enriched running shoes...
...could be carried out), she keeps bursting into giggling shrieks, a schoolgirl titillated by the brazenness of her own amorality. A control freak to the end, she demands instructions from the detectives arresting her on what to wear to jail. "God," one of them sighs, taking a long puff on a cigarette, "I miss drug busts...
...billionaire contrarian has bad-mouthed most of the particulars in Clinton's economic plan, especially the short-term stimulus package. The White House response has been muted because the Clinton camp wants neither to alienate Perot by bickering with him nor to puff up his ego by trying to address his complaints. But its tolerance of Perot's opinions is wearing thin. Last week George Stephanopoulos, Clinton's communication's director, called Perot "a good sound-biter" who lacks a cohesive program of his own. For now at least, Perot has assumed the role of opposition spokesman, in part because...
Wilhelm's other big issue is political reform. The puff piece on him in this month's Rolling Stone makes a big point of his work with labor groups and his success at mobilizing local activity while he was managing Clinton's campaign. In what seemed like a bad Jerry Brown flashback, Wilhelm predicted the increased use of "800" numbers and celebrity telethons. He even compared the possibility of such an event to "Jerry's Kids." You can just picture Barbara Streisand urging us all to give to "Clinton's Committees...
...Daumier do this? By fixing his pincer gaze on the theatrics of the law. In the drawing known variously as For the Defense and The Lyric Advocate, the lawyer's court robes puff out in baroque splendor -- one thinks, perhaps not irrelevantly, of Bernini's bust of Louis XIV -- on the hot air of his rhetoric, as he gestures at the man in the dock, a Jean Valjean whose simian face betrays not the slightest comprehension of what is being said on his behalf. Emphasized by the dark mass of the lawyer's sleeve, the short distance between...