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...will be a major witness at the first congressional hearings late this month, Mrs. Clinton is being cast as a "supporting actress," in the words of White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers, while the President plays the lead sales role.) Other Administration officers will hit the road to whoop up the plan; the White House has brought in a TV coach to prep them to make the most effective possible appearances on national talk shows and local programs. Among other things, they are being told to avoid jargon: to talk of alliances, for example, instead of Health Insurance Purchasing...
...White House, however, is at least giving Gore's report a splashier send- off than any of the previous overhaul efforts. Following Gore's press conference on Tuesday, Bill Clinton himself will hit the road to whoop up Gore's plans, with likely stops in Cleveland, Ohio, and Houston. The Administration plans some kind of publicity event on five of the six days after the conference, each probably featuring a horror story of inefficiency. Gore has compiled an extensive list, headed by the 10 pages of specifications for ashtrays -- or, as they are known to the government, "ash receivers, tobacco...
Last week, for example, with the aid of last-minute phone calling and arm twisting from the White House, Clinton and his aides persuaded the House to whoop through by heavy margins not only his raise-taxes, cut-spending budget plan but also his program to first spend an additional $16.3 billion to give an immediate boost to the economy. That the heavy Democratic majority in the House would prevail over even united Republican opposition had never been in doubt. That Clinton's lieutenants could prevent damaging defections by conservative Democrats was nowhere near so certain. A number of conservatives...
...celebration of the senses, from Picasso's "The Race" (painted in 1922, the same year as Ulysses and "The Waste Land") to Josephine Baker's Paris performances to the jazz rage of the 1920s and 1930's. Modernism brought with it a sense of sophisticated gusto. It seemed to whoop an uninhibited...
...gonna kick some serious poeticass!" shouts Patricia Smith to the crowd, and they whoop in approval. This week is the semi-finals, and the crowd is pumped. McIntyre has been on the official Boston Slam Team for a while now, and he knows how to get the audience going. He walks among them, slamming his fist in his hand...