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...many candidates to cuddle with Perot. Since February his favorable rating has declined, from 58% then to 51% now, probably because his harsh attacks on Clinton's policies and persona make him seem too partisan to some people. But Perot's numbers remain strong compared with Clinton's wan ratings. Many voters are aware of Perot's foibles -- wobbling on issues and overreacting to criticism -- but they like his anti-Washington message anyway. As a potential presidential candidate, Perot has actually pulled ahead of Clinton. In the survey, 46% said they would be very likely or somewhat likely to vote...
...Goldberg's mission in life to redeem improbable situations. It's what she did so profitably last summer in Sister Act, and she's awfully good at it. There's something about her -- a gritty, down-to-earth straightforwardness -- that tends to promise some realization of our wan hopes that potentially explosive circumstances can be defused -- at least for the running time of a movie...
...through the minefield, Aspin is the one -- provided his health holds up. The Secretary, 54, suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart malady causing shortness of breath and dizziness. Nine days after doctors installed a pacemaker in his chest, the irrepressible Pentagon chief was back in form last Saturday. Looking wan but energetic, the Defense Secretary showed his mastery of detail as he briefed reporters on the Administration's proposed 1994 defense budget of $263.4 billion, down $10 billion from the current year. The budget is the first installment in Clinton's proposal to slash a total of $124 billion from...
...Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby like a teddy bear. The monarch, who was shortly to abdicate, looks remarkably wan and shifty, and it's hard not to imagine that in this picture the Servant of Abraham was granted a moment of prophecy...
From the earliest primaries, the Arkansas Governor stressed his ideas for overhauling the economy, just as he attacked Bush's wan performance in that area. Bush, unable to boast about protecting prosperity, invested much of his rhetoric -- and his party's energy -- in issues that voters viewed as peripheral. Bush captured two-thirds of those who considered "family values" critical, but only 15% of the electorate fell into that category. Similarly, the G.O.P. sought to hold its conservative base by giving a large megaphone to its antiabortion faction. Bush led among those who think that abortion should be illegal under...