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...overrated trifle: one of those small, schematic finger exercises that seem to win critical praise in direct proportion to their lack of ambition. The characters are all too easy to parse: Serge is a modernist but really a dilettante; Marc, a classicist who's a snob underneath; Yvan, an art-naif who goes whichever way the wind blows. The audience has little investment in the clash between them because their friendship seems implausible from the get-go: there's no explanation of how or why they became friends, no real sense of closeness. This might be tolerable if Art worked...
...years I wanted to make the cover of TIME in the worst way. And I did. On April 4, 1994, there I was, in mug-shot gray, looking worried over President Clinton's shoulder in the Oval Office, underneath an accusing headline: DEEP WATER: HOW THE PRESIDENT'S MEN TRIED TO HINDER THE WHITEWATER INVESTIGATION. The story wasn't much prettier than the picture. Two years later, nothing remains of the criminal charges leveled against me by anonymous sources in TIME except, of course, my yet-to-be paid legal bills... GEORGE R. STEPHANOPOULOS Senior Adviser to the President...
Wally's is a bit harder to find. The bar hides on the opposite corner below a small white sign that reads "Bud," and, underneath, "Wally's Cafe." Bud is printed many times larger than the actual name of the establishment and gives no hint about the emphasis of the business. A blue poster behind plastic lists the musical line-up for 1995. Like a billboard for defunct business, the curling paper brags about "some of the biggest names in the jazz business," and warns the wary patron "not to be surprised when you see famous people in Wally...
...everyone's opinion is equally valuable, everyone's question is equally informed, and every crotchet and quirk is equally worthy of the President's time. This is populism of the most romantic sort. And it is thoroughly bogus, a conjurer's trick: the appearance of substance with nothing substantial underneath...
...There was a fire in the rail bed, burrowed underneath the rail," Cambridge Fire Department Deputy Chief William Rose said at the time...