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...White House, however, is at least giving Gore's report a splashier send- off than any of the previous overhaul efforts. Following Gore's press conference on Tuesday, Bill Clinton himself will hit the road to whoop up Gore's plans, with likely stops in Cleveland, Ohio, and Houston. The Administration plans some kind of publicity event on five of the six days after the conference, each probably featuring a horror story of inefficiency. Gore has compiled an extensive list, headed by the 10 pages of specifications for ashtrays -- or, as they are known to the government, "ash receivers, tobacco...
...something downright unseemly about the armies of reporters tripping over one another in Arkansas last spring, scrambling to dig up dirt on Clinton. But that was when polls had the Democrat third in a three-way race. As campaign reporters are quick to point out, the cheerier coverage and splashier play started when Clinton surged in the polls. Says David Lauter, who covers Clinton for the Los Angeles Times: "When people say Clinton has been favored in the press, there's a certain amount of amnesia going on. For that matter, at the end of the Gulf War people were...
...page features on such hot topics as "Geraldo's Compromising Tattoo." The magazine has added a horoscope page and a rundown of the week's soap-opera plots -- two low-rent staples of daily newspapers. Its late-breaking news pages, once a source of knowing industry tidbits, have become splashier and more trivial ("Rating the Oscar Parties: The Best and the Worst"). Cover stories, meanwhile, have kept both eyes on the newsstand: a January story about rock music on TV, for example, had no timely reason for being except to get Elvis Presley's face on the cover...
Fashionable department stores have climbed on the outsize bandwagon. Bullock's, a pricey Western chain of 22 stores, has moved the large-size Bullock's Woman boutiques in most of its outlets from obscure floor locations to splashier quarters. Since 1985, sales in the shops have steadily increased. Bullock's has now made the boutiques into a separate store division. In March a 3,000-sq.-ft. Bullock's Woman store, devoted to sizes 14 to 24, opened in a Las Vegas mall. The retailer plans to open at least two more stores of the same type...
While the streets of Cambridge are turning into rivers, plans are underway to turn this year's annual Raft Race on the Charles at the end of the month into an even splashier event...