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MONEY HAS always been the life blood of a Presidential campaign, but most campaign wisemen agree that never before has the umbilical cord between dollars and votes been so strong...
...conference table plunked down in the middle, the Roosevelt Room is the spot Edwin Meese III, Reagan's top adviser, has dreamed of ruling for his whole life. That very afternoon, in fact, he is dreaming of having a brainstorming session there, and soon a troop of white-haired wisemen files in with matching black and gold briefing books. After several uncomfortable glances and an embarrassed exit the door of the Roosevelt Room is closed behind the intruders. A Secret Service man guarding the back entrance to the Oval Office is not at all pleased to find in his sector...
...been dubbed the "Bleacher Bums," and they spend the game arguing about location supremacy. The rightfielders yell, "Left Field sucks," and the leftfielder retort with an equally imaginitive barb. And mixed in among the diehard scorekeepers, the beer guzzling fixtures and the cheerleading rowdies, there float the bleacher wisemen--bastions of baseball lore who are no less than bold in making their thoughts well known...
...take the 20-foot-high prank to its logical extreme. Raise over $30 million. Build a model of a Polaroid camera out of concrete and glass. Build it a hundred feet high. Pack it with elaborate devices and arcane knowledge and wisemen. Drop it on the campus of a large, prestigious university. If the smaller blow-up was funny, this must be hilarious. It would be Harvard's Science Center...
Welfare. When Frederick Wisemen released his documentary called Primate last year it caused a lot of controversy in the science world. Without commentary, it showed how animals were treated in labs (i.e., cruelly). Scientists were outraged that their research should be called into question in such an irresponsible way and Harvard philosophy professor Robert Nozick said, "What about the animals?" Wiseman said the film was meant to show what could happen to human subjects in a world of unfettered scientific research. (And CIA-sponsored investigations into hallucenogenic drugs seems to confirm those fears). Here again, there is no commentary...