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...thing, it's no Nixon. That work contained big, powerful set pieces: the Nixons' arrival in Peking aboard the Spirit of '76; the spellbinding banquet scene; a hallucinatory ballet; a tender aria for Pat and a hair raiser for Madame Mao. Instead, the new work takes its cue from Nixon's third act, a contemplative series of interlocking monologues that stripped the statesmen of their blue suits and Mao jackets and revealed them for the tired, nervous and scared human beings they were...
...seems to have obliterated the nomination chances of Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn, who voted against force in the gulf, and raised those of Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, who was for it. Predicts Maryland state chairman and fund raiser Nathan Landow: "As things stand now, Gore has the best shot. The vote on the war was important." The irony is that his pro-war vote, a prerequisite for having a chance in the general election, could deny Gore his dovish party's bid. It is not lost on his colleagues that every time Gore defends their vote against...
Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher is emerging as the most likely choice to chair Bush's re-election campaign in 1992. A proficient fund raiser, Mosbacher wants the job and ranks as a longtime Bush crony. But his talents run more toward glad-handing than mapping strategy or managing a far-flung staff. Those tasks will probably be left to Robert Teeter, a veteran of the 1988 campaign and public opinion expert. Chief of staff John Sununu also plans to exercise considerable control over the campaign. And hard-hitting political adman Roger Ailes, who has been coaching Bush...
...frivolous compared to what's going on," says Bates, "but it's a needed diversion. Otherwise, I'd just sit here with the news on, thinking about him every minute of every day." Her diversion takes the form of the Mardi Gras Follies '91. It is a charity fund raiser, staged annually by the Awa Lau Wahine, a Hawaiian term meaning Ladies of the Harbor. The group is an officers' wives club composed of Navy, Coast Guard and Marine women on the island of Oahu...
...total clutter in the nation's landfills. And just how do they try to enlist public support? By mail, of course. The environmental watchdog organization Greenpeace USA sends more than 25 million pieces annually. Earlier this year the Environmental Defense Fund put out a direct-mail fund raiser (on recycled paper) that offered, in exchange for membership, a copy of the best-selling 50 Simple Things You Can + Do to Save the Earth. The book's No. 1 suggestion for planetary rescue is "Stop junk mail...