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There are a few straightforward love songs like "Rain" and "Bad Girl," a lonely lament that echoes her Desperately Seeking Susan days. For the most part, Erotica is a first rate piece of work, although it lacks the sparkle of Madonna's earlier efforts. Musically, she's staring at the ceiling through a lot of this album, but she still puts on one hell of a show...
Negative ads still abound, but they are generally straightforward and issue- oriented. One purpose of these attack ads, campaign insiders say, is to lay the groundwork for points the candidates can expound on later in the debates. Statistics (however dubious) are everywhere. Fittingly, Ross Perot's first half-hour ad, which aired twice last week, was a no-nonsense lecture on the sorry state of the U.S. economy, filled to the brim with charts and graphs -- not the kind of fare prime-time viewers would be expected to sit through. Yet it drew an impressive 12.2 rating (representing 11.36 million...
...cutting, such as one juxtaposing Bush's optimistic pronouncements over the past two years ("The economy is strengthening") with bleak economic figures ("Unemployment is the highest in eight years"). But Clinton advisers have heeded focus groups that show voters are uncomfortable with excessively negative ads. "We have been really straightforward," says Grunwald, "because we think the facts speak for . themselves and because we think people are fed up with nasty politics...
...facts appear straightforward. A Green Beret unit in Vietnam running Project Gamma, a top-secret intelligence operation that monitored the results of the secret U.S. bombing in Cambodia, discovers that Chuyen, its key agent, may be a North Vietnamese double. The agent represents a profound threat to what the Green Berets perceive as a sensitive covert White House operation. A low-level CIA official in the embassy gives a wink and a nod for termination with extreme prejudice. Colonel Robert Rheault, a Green Beret officer cut in the Ollie North mode, orders Chuyen's death...
Getting there, however, will not be fun. The slip of the plates is not constant along the fault. The southern San Andreas bends like a river and splits into multiple branches. Because of this contortion, the Pacific and North American plates cannot slip in a straightforward way but must strain against each other like two sumo wrestlers. The battle of the plates has created numerous smaller fault lines along the San Andreas, giving the region the look of a smashed windshield. Over the millenniums, the Mojave shear zone to the east may offer a path of less resistance...