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...conventional usage to refer to Ross Perot as a third-party candidate. In fact, he is nothing of the sort. Unlike the classic third-party candidates -- say, Strom Thurmond and Henry Wallace, who in 1948 formed right- and left- wing offshoots of a real political party (the Democrats) -- Perot represents no party. He does not even pretend...
...begin in the office of San Francisco psychiatrist Isaac Barr (Richard Gere) as he listens attentively to patient Diana Baylor (Uma Thurmond). "I've had the dream again," she confides, haunted. "I'm arranging flowers as a centerpiece...
...year 3000. Their comments provide a sketchbook of the concerns, great and petty, of our age. Art Buchwald says he hopes there will be good air and good water, though "we didn't leave you any." The late Joseph Papp wishes for no more theater critics. Strom Thurmond advises a regimen of daily exercise. Howard Cosell, with his trademark bombast (we miss it), offers up a homily: "What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular." Oprah Winfrey explains that the things hanging from her ears are called earrings...
...Thurmond raised the possibility of a Republican filibuster to stop passage in the Senate before Congress adjourns this week...
...Every avenue will be taken to stop this bill and if that fails, I think the president will veto it," Thurmond said...