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...There's always that tug of war between the press and the establishment," Khlat says. "It's a partnership, but you're always going to get that tension. But now, even if they don't like what we write, they still respect...
...turning artistry into commerce: "I'm not your television ... I'm not commodity." Bang and Blame, an up-tempo song with meaty guitar hooks, is described by Stipe as a song "about domestic violence," but it may also be about the O.J. Simpson case: "You kiss on me/ tug on me ... jump on me/ bang on me ... you let go on me." Strange Currencies is about as close to an R. and B. love song as R.E.M. gets, and Stipe's vocals are openhearted: "I don't know why you're mean to me ... And I don't know what...
...rehearsal, with the pianist and the conductor, Vassily Sinaisky, unable to agree on basic matters of tempo: Cliburn finished the first movement a good half-beat ahead of the band. The andantino movement went well enough, but disaster struck in the blazing finale, which fell apart in a tug-of-war -- Cliburn pulling ahead, Sinaisky dragging back. The battle increased in intensity until, all at once, Cliburn suddenly appeared to lose interest, and the piece almost collapsed near the end in a welter of notes...
...flip essay with Aromavision (Clinton probably doesn't either, but one imagines he's grown used to this sort of thing). Thirty-odd years of expecting Presidents to be adept television performers and 30-odd years of Presidents' playing to that expectation -- the catch in Reagan's voice, the tug on Clinton's lip -- have chipped away at our notions of intimacy, dignity and content, leaving behind a fat appetite for sheer spectacle. Not always by design, the Clinton Administration is far and away the most entertaining in recent memory (excepting, of course, its wonky bits). Nannygate, the $200 haircut...
...tug between ideals and interests has produced a mush of mixed signals since Clinton took office. After saying before he was elected that he would deny MFN to China, Clinton continued the policy last May, but only conditionally. He threatened a cutoff this spring if Beijing's human-rights record failed to demonstrate "overall significant progress." It hasn't. Now, says House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Lee Hamilton, Clinton "can't renew MFN unless he lies...