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Jordan, a shy, soft-spoken man, still seems uncomfortable on the stump even after four years in office. But not Brown ("Slick Willie," as Jordan calls him), who leads all the candidates in endorsements--the major unions, many of the Democratic clubs ("Machine," Achtenberg says dismissively) and a healthy collection of ethnic organizations. Achtenberg, meanwhile, has issued a flood of position papers on everything from immigration to the environment. Her most inventive proposal: a council of neighborhoods that would give the city's diverse residents a voice in city hall...
...Slick (Ottskey...
...claiming to be repelled by politicians--an era when even politicians say they're repelled by politicians--would hardly seem an auspicious time to launch a self-described "fan magazine" about politics, a Rolling Stone for the arts of governance and electioneering. But here it is: George, a slick bimonthly named for our nation's first President. More memorable than the twee title is the name at the top of George's masthead: John F. Kennedy Jr., a former assistant district attorney who is now Manhattan's most glamorous editor in chief, Tina Brown and Anna Wintour notwithstanding...
...these zealots, modern American art is summed up in the image of Robert Mapplethorpe, that slick and vastly overrated photographer, conservative in every sense except the sexual, who is now seen as a hybrid of welfare queen and Caligula, living off the NEA on your tax dollar and mine while sticking bullwhips up his bum. In fact, Mapplethorpe neither got nor asked for one cent from the NEA to make the photos that caused the offense; a museum did that, for a show of his work. And he died a multimillionaire because of the ranting queer hatred of Jesse Helms...
...REAL SLICK WILLIE...