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...least George Bush does not have to contend with the twin curses of double- digit interest rates and inflation that poisoned Jimmy Carter's 1980 re- election bid. Unfortunately for the President, the economic parallels with the last Democrat to occupy the White House begin to multiply after that. As Carter entered the final two months of his campaign, he faced a 7.5% unemployment rate. Bush is looking at 7.6%. In the fall of 1980, the nation's economy was dead in the water. Based on the latest round of indicators, so will it be for Bush, who finds himself...
...line -- in which the family scion (a well-cast James Spader) runs for Congress, investigates a murder in which he could be implicated and sorts out the circumstances surrounding his father's suicide -- is twisty and full of colorful characters and weird behavior. Director Mark Frost, co-creator of Twin Peaks, has made a good-looking movie, combining intellectual ambition with darkly glamorous conflicts between private demons and public trust. Storyville is good, serious...
...circus is back. While Mark Frost is happy to leave the town he helped make a prime-time legend, his ex-partner is still living there, with all the warped ingenuousness of a rural kid who tells his friends, "Let's put the freak show on right here! Again!" TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME, Lynch's way-too-late prequel to the 1990 TV series, relates the last days of teen queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). After an agonizing first half-hour designed to empty the theater, Lynch unleashes his patented perfervid style, puts the familiar dwarfs and feebs...
...Rock, Arkansas, to plead in vain for Clinton's support for the Tennessee Senator's own 1988 presidential bid. But now that the hierarchy between the two men is firmly established, they are at last free to enjoy their Ivy League similarities. "For Clinton it's like having your twin brother run for Vice President on the same ticket," says a campaign insider. Both authentic policy wonks, the pair spent a happy hour on the first bus trip discussing the intricacies of government-mandated fuel-efficiency standards for cars...
...tasteful to a fault, the group have become acolytes of an eccentric Greek scholar who demands that what few pupils he takes study only his curriculum. There is Henry, rich, seductive, depraved; Francis, a homosexual with a very convenient house in the nearby hills; Athena-like Camilla and her twin Charles. Charles drinks too much, but then they all do, including Bunny, the feckless, unreliable...