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CHRIS CARTER, creator of The X-Files, is going the extra light-year to make sure the future is filled with conventions where people in Scully and Mulder masks beg former extras on the show for autographs and talk sotto voce about aliens they have met. He has recorded a spoken-word piece on the movie sound track for The X Files: Fight the Future. But only true believers will catch it--it's 10 minutes and 13 seconds after the last track. As any aficionado knows, Ten Thirteen is the name of Carter's production company...
Last fall, the accepted wisdom among House Republicans was that Gingrich planned to give up the speakership next year to launch a long-shot campaign for President. He had said as much himself, sotto voce. And though few of his colleagues believed that the man with the lowest approval rating of any national politician in the U.S. could win the nomination, they assured themselves that the Speaker's real goal was to exit gracefully from the House, a place he was no longer wanted. Newt's plans were so well known that Dick Armey, the majority leader, and Bob Livingston...
...Chopin's first Ballade in G minor, the second item on the program after the opening Prelude No. 25. In spite of a few oddly reassuring finger slips (proof, perhaps, that Pollini is not a cybernetic organism) the interpretation seemed scarily authoritative. A percussive left hand and a sometimes sotto voce right transformed this standby into a sleeker, more macho epyllion...
...right easygoing nature. A former nursery school teacher, Tiggy loves to ride and hunt and is always ready for a raucous laugh with her young charges. Hired in 1993, Legge-Bourke had a famously chilly relationship with Diana; she turned to lawyers after Diana allegedly made a nasty sotto voce comment about her at a St. James's Palace Christmas party. She left Charles' employ last spring but was still close to the princes, visiting them on weekends at Highgrove and attending an Eton end-of-term celebration last June at William's invitation...
Their bill, which Clinton supported only sotto voce last year, died quietly on the Senate floor. But this year the bill's other co-sponsor, Tennessee's Fred Thompson, happens to be the man who will preside over the Senate hearings. So the President made sure he sided with his putative prosecutor last week. He went straight into the lion's den--to the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee--to praise the bill as "tough," "balanced" and "credible." He warned that "delay will mean the death of reform," which not long ago would have sounded like wishful thinking...