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...from the Barbarians. Free Press editorial director Adam Bellow, his publisher, says it's modeled on Machiavelli's The Prince: "He provides a world view and political advice to anyone running for office in the current media-saturated environment." That environment, plus Donna Rice, was the very thing that undid Hart's candidacy in 1988. How come he didn't write about it then? "Well," says Bellow, "it took him a decade to fully grasp the implications." Somebody should have bought him a calculator...
...fact the storm does care. The waves are agents of Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, who is about to launch us into a sort of King Lear's Revenge. Once again we meet a deposed, aging monarch and howling winds. But if the storm on the heath undid Lear, the raging of the elements provides Prospero's salvation...
...history, maligned both by the press, which was vicious in its coverage, and by his own tongue. He abandoned his supporters in July, angering the vast majority of them. Then, he reentered, did well at the first debate with his folksy humor and soared in the polls. But he undid himself again, declaring in a 60 Minutes interview that Republicans had plotted to disrupt his daughter's wedding. His momentum died...
...what undid the Crimson's comeback efforts was poor baserunning, Kennon and Johnson said...
...television, which helped unravel the putsch, come to enforce its own brief attention span upon history? Recent great events -- the breakup of Eastern Europe, the Persian Gulf war, the failure of the coup -- seem to be enacting themselves in shorter and shorter time frames. Three days last week undid 10 centuries of civic dormancy. It is possible that the world is dividing between blood feuders and channel changers. The blood feuders, like zealots in Ireland or the Middle East, cannot forget revenge, even over many years; the impatient channel changers of the electronic age favor fast-paced, variable and possibly...