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...getting around it; David Letterman sounds, well, happy for a change. Or, at least, as happy as an insecure, driven, angst-ridden performer with a pathological fear of failure can be. Certainly no one has more of a right to enjoy himself for a spell. For the past two years, Letterman has been the most wrangled-over, gossiped-about, sought-after star in television. When Jay Leno was chosen to succeed Johnny Carson as host of the Tonight Show, it was Letterman, the disappointed office seeker, who drew the sympathy vote. Last fall, when his contract with NBC was coming...
...third time in as many months, the President found himself scrounging for two or three votes for a half-trillion-dollar package. The compromise was virtually complete, but reluctance by rank-and-file Democrats to go along could spell defeat when the House and Senate vote on the plan this week. Party discipline might work in the House, but White House officials expected Al Gore would have to cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate. "The big question," joked a senior official, visibly exhausted from hours of lobbying, "is whether we can hold Gore...
...gender thing; we're talking every last, ever loving body on the sand). Now, don't you think that last summer, or the summer before, or especially back in the '80s, there were fewer paunches out there that jiggled like flan? And didn't we just go through a spell where the buttocks seemed hitched to a spot just a notch or two higher up the spine...
...idea of beauty itself. Yet his attachment to rural images from earlier French art, particularly the earthy fields of Millet, is pervasive and obvious; some of his "Texturologies" might as well be exaggeratedly close-up paintings of the life of the soil done by a microbiologist under the spell of the Barbizon school...
CINEMA The Firm starts smart and ends up infirm. Boy and girl take too long to meet in Sleepless in Seattle. MUSIC Streisand makes a dazzling return to Broadway -- on CD. THEATER Robert Goulet's touring Camelot is a waxworks. BOOKS Game Over tells how Nintendo wove its international spell. A seductive look at new theories of the universe...