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Some Governors were miffed that the President had stolen their thunder. The original plan had been to unveil education goals at the annual convention of the National Governors' Association later this month. Governors Bill Clinton, an Arkansas Democrat, and Carroll Campbell, a South Carolina Republican, held meetings throughout the fall to work out the details. In early December talks were thrown into disarray when the White House told them Bush wanted to announce the goals himself in the State of the Union. "It had the effect of derailing the process," said one gubernatorial aide...
...phones are the equivalent of sound lasers. Don't hurt me again, says the dog. I'll talk. Perhaps the phone that looks like a duck decoy and quacks instead of ring will breed new species -- phones that bark or baaa or moo or, maybe, sound like distant summer thunder...
...movies a month. TNT also carries N.B.A. basketball (Turner just renewed his package of 50 regular-season games for four more years at the hefty cost of $275 million), and will offer 50 hours of exclusive Winter Olympics coverage in 1992. And if TNT seems to be stealing some thunder (and some programming) from TBS SuperStation, Turner's older and still more widely seen channel, the ratings do not show it: TBS's audience in December was the highest in its history. The creation of TNT now seems like a marketing masterstroke. "They are like two brands...
...being able to test himself, master a new skill. He flew in Navy jets before making Top Gun. He played serious pool for eight weeks before The Color of Money. For Cocktail he tended bar in Manhattan. He plays a race-car driver in his next movie, Days of Thunder, a spin-off from Cruise's latest perilous hobby. But for Born on the Fourth of July he faced a different challenge: spending almost a year sporadically in a wheelchair, as Ron Kovic...
Rogers has been with Cruise in Charlotte on the speedway set of Days of Thunder. She is there as Tom Terrific, his solid frame wrapped in a white racing suit with black and red stripes, steps into the chartreuse-and-yellow Lumina. He carries his celebrity gracefully, as if he knows he'll have it for a long time. "I'm just happier now than I've ever been in my life," he says softly. On the fast track of responsible stardom, he just keeps cruising along...