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...this fire breather? It was Slade Gorton, the very same Washington Senator who just three weeks ago was making bipartisan music with Democrat Joe Lieberman. But now Gorton was bouncing off the walls of the radio-TV gallery like Mister Rogers on a caffeine binge. What had happened? Perhaps the normally temperate Gorton had simply been worn down by the marathon negotiations. Perhaps he wanted to be the first to trot out that overworked movie title. Or, perhaps, like so many others, he had been driven temporarily insane by full-frontal exposure to the case against Clinton...
...knew he couldn't scotch a trial entirely without enraging conservatives. So he went on television three weeks ago to insist that there would be a trial and "there won't be any dealmaking." But even as Lott spoke, one of his closest allies in the Senate, Washington's Slade Gorton, was quietly negotiating a deal with Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat who had strongly criticized Clinton's behavior but who is advocating censure. Acting as surrogates for the Senate leaders, Gorton and Lieberman were the original authors of the plan for a mini-trial without witnesses. But Lott...
...this point, the start of a trial before the Senate seems inevitable. The proposal by Sens. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) to allow a preliminary vote on the merit of the charges against the president before the commencement of trial proceedings does not appear likely to succeed. Yet we hope the Senate will vote to end the trial soon after it has begun, whether by a motion to dismiss the charges or, if necessary, a compromise censure resolution...
...inquiring reporter seeks the secrets of a pop star) and the legends of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno and Roxy Music, Haynes fashions a fresco of seductive grotesques--notably the Iggy-esque Curt Wild, whom Ewan McGregor inhabits as a writhing punk- sprite. The Bowie-ish star, Brian Slade (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), is consumed by success, whereas the real Bowie always looked in control of his eminence. But, hey, you go to a musical for the numbers, which are brilliantly conceived and played. Does the milieu seem starched, grandiose, fake? Why, sure. "The whole film is faux," Haynes says...
November also sees the National Organization for Women demand the resignation of Dean of Freshmen F. Skiddy Von Slade '38, who had written a letter opposing the admission of more women into the University...