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...signs read: "Vote Neil. He ain't slick, He ain't got Quaile, He don't quit, And he didn't inhale...
Welcome to amateur hour. Indeed, amateurism is now celebrated by Perot insiders as a boon in a season of finely crafted political double-talk and slick negative advertising. "This is anything but a professional organization," admits Orson Swindle, the top Perot lieutenant, called in to refurbish the sagging effort in the dark days following Perot's withdrawal. "We're all amateurs, but that's not a disadvantage. We've got the enthusiasm of the volunteers...
There are certainly times when Miller's monologue is a little too full of slick lines: when he asks God rhetorically why he has been spared death from AIDS while so many of his friends have died, or when he, as the spokesman for all gay men, urges them to "bare our souls and our buttholes." But his vision of life and love is enduring: lovers are "naked in the sight of each other, who are the only ones who matter," or, more bluntly: "We can't let these right-wing fuckheads tell us how to fuck...
...Slick Willie" could take lessons in evasion from this master. Lincoln's dodging and weaving offended the abolitionist preacher Theodore Parker, who was a hero to Lincoln's law partner William Herndon. And Karl Marx, who was reading closely in his American sources, concluded that Lincoln was timorous: "All Lincoln's acts have the appearance of mean hedging provisos, which one lawyer puts to his opposing lawyer...
POLITICS MAY BE IN VOGUE IN PRIME time, but inside-the-Beltway sitcoms like Hearts Afire and The Powers That Be look cheesy next to a really smart political film like HBO's RUNNING MATES. Ed Harris plays a slick U.S. Senator who needs a wife to boost his bid for the presidency. Diane Keaton is a children's book author who falls for him but becomes a liability when a past indiscretion surfaces. The two stars click as a romantic team; there are nice offbeat touches (Keaton's mentally unbalanced brother, played by Ed Begley Jr.); and the backstage...