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...fund raising by President CLINTON and Vice President AL GORE. The 1883 statute against soliciting funds on federal property has never been tested in a telephone-solicitation case, and Justice pros don't want to start now. But Justice insiders are astonished at the number of leaks that have sprung, far ahead of the Dec. 2 decision deadline, disclosing that Reno's staff and the FBI want to shut down the case. Some officials suspect that the leaks are trial balloons aimed at pressing the Attorney General to go along with staff recommendations. Also, the leaks may be meant...
...like a narrator in a post-modern after-school special that a jet-fueled pop star. "So Long Suicide," "Michael You've Got a Lot ot Answer For" and the questionably titled "Undergoing Treatment" seem to delve into a musical "mathmos" so reminescent of the movie whence the Durans sprung...
When computers were mediocre typewriters 10 years ago, few people cared about this country's income gap in computer ownership. With the rise of the Internet, however, a new buzzphrase has sprung out of the John F. Kennedy School and it's ilk: "equal access to information." The idea is that the computer itself is of limited value; it matters as an access point to the world of information online...
...there is the late work From a Day with Juan, 1977, whose white ramp jacked up into heaven presents a bland portentousness that is a lifetime away from O'Keeffe's revolutionary start. Through it all runs a whiff of pure Americana, a longing for an untroubled world sprung from native soil. "It is breathtaking as one rises up over the world one has been living in," O'Keeffe once wrote, "and looks down at it stretching away and away...
...guilty secret, and the moviegoing public let him get away with it. Stewart presented himself as an ordinary guy--just a Jimmy. Maybe a slightly overachieving Jimmy, what with the Princeton degree and the Air Force brigadier general's stripes. But all in all a solid Republican sprung from humble merchant stock in Indiana, Pa. In a lifetime of movies, Stewart was the goodwill ambassador for a genial, vanishing America...