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...first look at "Voodoo" comes, of course, from the jacket. The cover shows a primitive, zombie-like figure in the midst of a Mick Jagger-like shake of the hips. Inside are red-tinted, run-of-the-mill candid shots of Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood, looking about as old as the Moody Blues. Then again, Keith has looked like that for the last twenty years...
...have refused to air two half-hour G.O.P. advertisements against the Clinton plan, both paid for by billionaire Ross Perot. Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour finds this unfair, since last month NBC aired a two- hour, prime-time special on health care funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit group with close ties to the Clinton reform effort...
...their defense, the networks say they never accept advocacy advertising. For NBC's part, the network says the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation bought the air time, but NBC retained all editorial control over the program, which Tom Brokaw hosted...
...slatternly and foolish. In Angels in the Outfield, an 11-year-old boy named Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is left in a foster home by his feckless father and requires the intervention of a heavenly host to help him. In North, an 11- year-old boy named North (Elijah Wood) becomes so disaffected from his parents that he chooses "free agency" and spends the rest of the picture trying to get other grownups to pick up his contract...
...Kaysen's wood-frame home in Cambridge, only two blocks from Harvard Square, displays the same elegant spareness as her writing. On a table sits a copy of Cigarettes Are Sublime, an elegy to smoking written by Richard Klein. She is defiant on the subject. "Everyone should have a vice, and everybody does," she says, drawing on a Marlboro. "Immortality was never my goal...