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...mesmeric blue eyes, he comes across as a winsome extraterrestrial. Even more exotic among politicians, he actually seems to be thinking while he talks, and given the opportunity, he'll talk about anything but politics. While taking a stroll along Michigan Avenue in Chicago, killing time before a fund raiser for Illinois senatorial candidate Dick Durbin, Kerrey provides a magical mystery tour of his mind: he mentions how much he relishes mathematical constants ("I have a love affair with figures that stay constant, like gravity. Don't legislate against gravity"); from there he skips to drug addiction...
...locked my child in a car trunk or forced him to smoke so many cigarettes that he vomited, I would not be at all surprised if he turned into a rebellious, hard-drinking hell raiser. Maybe the Rev. Billy Graham should have been home more often to discuss intelligent parenting skills with Mom Ruth. KATHY COUGHLIN Longwood, Florida...
...used to be that with the Wave and a few handshakes a President could be on his way after a fund raiser. Nixon launched the Big One, raising both arms above his head so far that his suit jacket came up to his ears. Reagan swept his hand through the air and stared mistily into the sunset; then he'd schmooze briefly in a structured receiving line and be in bed by 10 p.m. Barbara Bush introduced the Point-and-Wave technique, and at a large fund-raising dinner Wednesday night, the Clintons used it several times. Mrs. Clinton...
There was a fund raiser for the controversial F.D.R Memorial the other day that traveled all over Washington and included real Roosevelt martinis (3 to 1) at the Tidal Basin construction site. It ended with a private White House dinner of lamb and artichokes at $10,000 a plate and grossed about half a million. Bill and Hillary Clinton were eloquent in praise of their heroes Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt to their black-tie audience of 200. Actors Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann, who had played the Roosevelts on television, gave readings, and there was a scratchy old recording...
...Award in a dress she'd made of credit cards because she was broke. Resourcefuness like that quickly garnered her offers for big-budget films. "America rolled out the red carpet for me," says Gardiner. "I'm very grateful." Nevertheless, this year, while her dress was attending a fund-raiser in Portland, Oregon, Gardiner watched the Oscar ceremony from her home in Bondi, Australia. Why did she go back? Seeing a stuntwoman she'd just been talking to decapitated on a set didn't help. Ultimately, though, her reasons were patriotic. "I want to see the film industry progress here...