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...Kennedy's plane landed on Nov. 22, 1963. Michelle Pfeiffer, glitzed up and dumbed down, is a restless housewife who vows to attend the President's funeral in Washington; Dennis Haysbert is the mysterious black man she tries to befriend. Director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused, Heart Like a Wheel) has the gifts of finding verve and ambiguity in TV-movie subjects and drawing beautiful interpretations from his lead actresses. As with Pfeiffer here. Her work is glamourless, subtle, heroic; her performance is a righteous heartbreaker...
...said the student, who did well in school,felt he was "inventing the wheel of achievement"because academic excellence was perceived to be"white behavior...
...life was so sad and truncated, and the art that came out of it so limited, that it seems unfair to dwell on either. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Basquiat had talent -- more than some of the young painters who were his contemporaries, though this may not be saying much. The trouble was that it did not develop; it was frozen by celebrity, like a deer in a jacklight beam. In the '80s Basquiat was made a cult figure by a money-glutted, corrupt and wholly promotional art-marketing system. He died in 1988, a year before...
...Early staffing decisions that will set the tone of the Administration. Two key appointments: chief of staff, which will signal whether Clinton will follow a top-down or hub-of-the-wheel governing style; and Treasury Secretary, which must be someone who can reassure both financial markets and the Federal Reserve that Clinton will exercise discipline as he pursues economic reform...
From this stance, his advisers fear Clinton will follow Roosevelt and reject a White House system that revolves around a strong chief of staff -- even if the President-elect permits someone to have the title. F.D.R. preferred what political scientists describe as a "spokes of a wheel" structure that had the President at the hub. Carter too tried a "spokes" arrangement for the first two years of his term. Jack Watson (who was Carter's last chief of staff) has described the disaster that ensued. Carter "wished to know the pros and cons and the ins and the outs...