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...first choice, even as the prospects of this fantasy ticket grow dimmer. The retired general has no more reason to be thrilled by Dole's performance lately than anyone else. Since taking himself out of the running last November, he has enjoyed his relative obscurity and chafed whenever the spotlight threatened to return. And his wife Alma, who was thought to oppose his candidacy last fall, has turned out to be much more opposed to a political career at this juncture than many of Powell's associates realized at the time...
This year it is Ilya Ehrenburg's turn in the spotlight. Ehrenburg, probably unknown to most Americans only 30 years after his death, was one of the most famous Soviet writers from the 1930s to the 1960s, serving as the USSR's main cultural emissary to the West under Stalin and Khrushchev. While he wrote dozens of novels and books of verse, he became best known as a correspondent for Izvestia and other Soviet newspapers during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, when his fiercely anti-Fascist sentiments made him a favorite of Red Army soldiers...
SENATOR MARK HATFIELD Once: the doghouse for anti-balanced budget vote. Now: the spotlight as budget negotiator...
Amid the mounting gloom, Newt Gingrich remains stymied. The man who energized House Republicans has been in his own private funk since January, after Clinton refused to do a balanced-budget deal on G.O.P. terms and Gingrich had no fallback plan ready. When Gingrich inches into the spotlight lately, it's under the cover of lovable critters. To mark Earth Day last Monday he appeared at the Atlanta zoo with an African elephant. He ended the week on the Tonight Show, cradling a piglet. If it's all a bit Marlin Perkins, esteemed gray eminence of Wild Kingdom...
...genre which owes a lot to the Coens, who have written and directed five films together. Back when Quentin Tarantino and John Dahl were still just film geeks, Joel and Ethan Coen made "Blood Simple," a completely original and seductively seedy neo-noir. The film propelled them into the spotlight, where, for a time, they were "the" cool independant filmmakers. Now, of course, we have lesser directors hosting "Saturday Night Live" and telling us what is hip and what...