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...common image of a U.S. Secretary of State is that of Dean Acheson, Cyrus Vance, James Baker -- a suave Wasp lawyer, slender and urbane, who probably rowed at Yale or Princeton. But Lawrence Eagleburger, the new Acting Secretary, looks like the Michelin man with a cane. He once had an exercise bike fitted with a special rack so he could read diplomatic cables; it stood unused so long it was finally removed, and now he's ballooned to more than 250 lbs. He's had a knee-replacement operation, takes steroids for a muscle disorder, and has been spotted with...
When a blood-hungry mosquito lands on a human forearm -- or, more likely, on the eyelid of a cow, the haunch of a squirrel, the wing of a roosting bird or even the back of a caterpillar -- she goes to work with awesome efficiency. Her slender proboscis, consisting of two sharp and sometimes serrated cutting % tools surrounding a pair of tiny tubes, pierces the skin (and, if necessary, the cloth or feathers protecting it) and finds a capillary, bending to slide into the tiny blood vessel. Down one tube comes her saliva, which deadens sensation and blocks coagulation...
...Oppo shop at the Bush campaign employs six paid staffers and about a dozen young volunteers under the direction of David Tell, a slender, red- bearded 32-year-old who, friends wryly note, flicks his Camel butts into an "Elvis Lives" ashtray. This team is helped by a staff of 20 to 40 people at the Republican National Committee who work shifts through the night, when time is available on the RNC mainframe computer. Comparable staffs at the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign number about 30. The Perot campaign says it employs only two researchers. All the campaigns eagerly...
Unfortunately, instead of a leveled playing field we get a portrait of the American wife as a self-deluded woman who is steeped more in the ethos of the '50s than the '90s, largely by her own unconscious design. Based on a slender sampling of unfaithful wives, Heyn makes sweeping generalizations about the malleability and self-deception of American wives and their inability to assert their own needs within the marital relationship. All of this -- which is presented with oozing sympathy but is actually quite patronizing -- is used to justify a wife's decision to take a lover to find...
Never mind that the most sensational parts are among the oldest information. Morton makes much of Diana's bulimia, usually a disease of young girls who follow binge eating with self-induced vomiting in order to stay slender. But Diana's painfully thin phase goes back to the early '80s, after Prince William's birth. Some of the material sounds farfetched, including an account of her throwing herself down a flight of steps in view of the Queen Mother...