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...Clinton, however, has been less deferential to Bentsen's policy views. And so the Texan has been less of a prime mover on economic strategy than had been expected. For example, the stress on tax increases over spending reductions in the Administration's deficit-cutting program reflects Clinton's preferences far more than Bentsen's. So far, too, the compromises pushing that program through Congress have been concocted by Capitol Hill powers -- currently Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who succeeded Bentsen as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee -- dealing directly with Clinton...
...comedist A.R. Gurney, whose best previous plays (Sweet Sue, Love Letters) also centered on the disruptive consequences of love unpursued. Gurney is often pegged as an elegist for the waning Wasp. In Later Life he makes great efforts to usher in characters outside that stereotype. They are Irish, Jewish, Texan and techno-nerd; one woman is a lesbian, one man gay, and these two fully transcend sketch comedy to offer poignant glimpses of self-destructive lives. Predictably, however, the central figure is a Wasp, and an uptight one at that...
...more sour speculations about White House motives was offered last week by Ross Perot in an interview with U.S. News & World Report. The Texan suggested that Clinton was out to "get a little war going" to "distract the American people" from economic hard times and broken campaign promises. An indignant Stephanopoulos responded that Perot's assertions were "outrageous" and "ill-considered and intemperate...
...Ross Perot Show, the half-hour series starring a banty Texan and a lot of charts, is dangerously close to being cancelled -- or it would be if it were really part of a network lineup. Nielsen ratings for Perot's infomercials...
...since the campaign has the Texan's good-cop, bad-cop routine been so polished -- and so evident. With a combination of money and moxie, the man who finished in third place last November has displayed a remarkable ability to stay in the headlines. Leaders of both parties treat him with deference as they calculate whether he can maintain what insiders call the "Perot 19" -- the 19% of the electorate that voted for him last year -- as a durable political force...