Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Massachusetts Governor's resounding finale last week -- victories with more than 60% of the vote in California, New Jersey, Montana and New Mexico -- gave him more than enough delegates to win the nomination in Atlanta. It also prompted three of his vanquished adversaries -- Richard Gephardt, Bruce Babbitt and Paul Simon -- to endorse him with all the rhetorical goo expected on such occasions. But Jackson refused to play along. Instead, he took the role of the iron-whimmed King of Siam...
Already, just the names prompt small chuckles of remembrance: Alexander Haig, Pat Robertson, Pete du Pont, Joseph Biden, Bruce Babbitt, Paul Simon. Has it really been just four months since Iowa anointed Richard Gephardt and Bob Dole as the favorites? Before Primary Season 1988 is carted off to the Smithsonian, it seems fitting to step back and ponder some lessons of the campaign that was. After all, as the Duchess instructed Alice in Wonderland, "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find...
...Dukakis was often exasperating, but it stemmed so naturally from their personalities that no one could accuse them of being political changelings. There are, of course, limits to authenticity. Jackson was so real he couldn't make enough white voters accept his appeal. And the genuineness of Paul Simon's dippy persona carried him into the semifinals, but there was no way that a political Mister Magoo was actually going to be nominated...
STRAVINSKY: PETRUSHKA; Symphony in Three Movements (EMI). Britain's Simon Rattle and his City of Birmingham Orchestra shake and roll their way through Stravinsky's great ballet score, then toss in a dazzlingly precise symphony...
CAPOTE: A BIOGRAPHY by Gerald Clarke (Simon & Schuster; $22.95). An engrossing, sympathetic account of the Tiny Terror of U.S. letters and of a life spent swimming in a sea of scandal...