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...DOLE His cigarettes-no-more-dangerous-than-milk remark reignited at Democratic Convention...
...will soon be competing not just with Perot but also with the Olympics and then the major-party conventions for airtime and oxygen. And when voters do take a look, just about everyone will find something to be offended by. Old folks will be reminded of his remark about their "duty to die"; veterans will learn that he wants to phase out some of their hospitals; immigrants that he wants to close the borders and slice legal immigration at least in half. Diane Dillingham, a longtime G.O.P. activist but Lamm admirer in Denver, thinks his suck-a-lemon style...
Alan Ayckbourn's book builds, with deft comic logic, from a tangle of mistaken identities to the climactic remark, "There's a cat-burgling pig in my bedroom!" Lloyd Webber's tunes are inventive and sweetly chipper. The effect is of two precocious lads putting on a genial public-school charade. By Jeeves may not be lighter than air, but it's surely lighter than Guerre...
...That remark presaged a campaign-long insistence on a standard American campaign practice--repetition. "Whatever it is that we're going to say and do," Gorton explained to Yeltsin's aides, "we have to repeat it between eight and 12 times." Those numbers were invented. "The Russians believe that anything that's worthwhile is scientifically based," says Shumate. "This gave us a leg up when we started to seriously use focus groups to guide campaign policy, but right at the start it let us pretend that we knew more than we really did. There's no data supporting...
...baffling and in many ways terrifying present in 1996. Science fiction is always about the year in which it is written. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a McCarthyite fantasy. Today, I think, the alien is inside, a virus of one kind or another." He cites J.G. Ballard's remark: "The only truly alien planet is Earth...