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Moore's first career goal was a thing of beauty, setting the stage for the Crimson's 7-2 domination over Dartmouth. Moore undressed the Big Green's defenseman Carl Desjardins, leaving Eric Almon unprotected between the pipes. A flawless back-hander caught Almon looking at Moore lit the lamp...
Stalking the stage of Dartmouth College's Moore Theater, grinning fiercely and sweating like the hardest-working man in show business, Gore seemed stoked enough to belt the words himself: "I know you wanna leave me,/ but I refuse to let you go." He wanted to tell voters who have dumped him for Bradley that he'll do anything to win them back. Of course, since this was Al Gore talking, the words came out a bit differently: "I would like to have your support for me," and "Fighting for all the people--that's what I want...
...granted and not showing emotion. Now it's hammering him for trying too hard and showing too much. Of course he was sometimes overbearing at Dartmouth--asking faux-Clintonian personal questions ("How old is your child, Corey?") and then, after the event, sitting on the lip of the stage for 90 minutes to expound--impressively, by the way--on policy until everyone was exhausted, and Tipper said, "Al, I'm going to have to go." But the interesting question isn't whether Gore's exhibitionism is a tactic (it is) but whether groveling works any better in politics than...
First off, he scheduled a meeting four days later at Dick Clark Productions to discuss new quiz-show possibilities. Normally, nursing programs from the brainstorming stage to the air can take forever, but this time the process kicked in at warp speed. Greed will premier on Fox this Thursday at 9 p.m. E.T. and run for three weeks, or longer if it proves to be a ratings winner...
...Irish mayor lose; Francis Jr. (John P. Arnold), the mayor's playboy, finger-snapping son; obsequious, bumbling Ditto (Paul Kerry), the mayor's would-be right-hand man, and so on, and so on. Though there is some fine acting in the mix, none of these characters is on stage long enough to provide more than a suggestion of local color. Indeed, since these minor players never develop beyond mere "snapshots," one wonders if The Last Hurrah might have been better realized as a Broadway musical, Ragtime style...