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Morris: Harry Thomason's. It was brilliant. I liked it because if the old liberals had succeeded in co-opting our convention--which they didn't, as it turned out--then there could be a form of triangulation: the Republican Convention, the Democratic Convention, with the train ride as the President's own convention in the middle...
...make others at the hotel bar think they were in the room for the big strategy session. If the candidate wins, some land staff jobs with impressive-sounding titles. In 1993, after helping prepare campaign stops for Al Gore and working on the Inauguration for Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, Livingstone got his: director of the White House Office of Personnel Security...
Bill Clinton himself was on the spot last week. During House hearings on the White House travel-office scandal, it emerged that in early 1993 the President pushed a business proposal by his friend TV producer Harry Thomason. Clinton made notations on the proposal that an aviation business Thomason partly owned be awarded a $500,000 no-bid government contract. "These guys are sharp," he wrote, and put a check in the box marked ACTION...
...Kolwalskis' friends, Margaret J. Barker as Eunicel, the upstairs neighbor, and Dustin Thomason, Andres Colapinto and Zelman firmly underline the separation of Streetcar into female and male spaces which frequently clash. The aftermath is both destructive, and as Williams makes clear, part of the eternal human experience. It is, as Stella says, "One of those mysterious electric things that happen between people." The men's poker parties are so testosterone-pumped that they nearly steam the windows, while Barker's Eunice provides a maternal refuge from the consequences...
...Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, you will recall, are the very rich television producers (Designing Women, Evening Shade) who caused a stir during the early days of the Clinton Administration on account of their close friendship with the President and his wife and their constant presence at the White House. Washington has changed considerably since then: the Thomasons have been swept out of town (or at least out of sight) and the Republicans have swept in. All of which may have sharpened the Thomasons' sense of outrage but not their satirical skills...