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Some of the objections to naming a woman Vice President this year revolve around the vice presidency itself, and the qualifications one should expect a candidate to bring to it. The office is almost metaphysically bizarre. In some thin, Zen way, it is the most interesting office in American public life, a political antiworld: it is a condition of utter impotence that is a heartbeat away from the greatest power in the world. It is a form of political cryonics. The Vice President is, so to speak, flash-frozen and then, should the need arise, thawed out later. There...
...anthem of optimism, for those happy to leave the past behind. "Now." The word pulsates, over and over, to the rhythm of Marvin Hamlisch 's brassy tune. From MacLaine it reverberates to the back of the theater as a boast, a cheer and, in her mind, a Zen-like prayer to live by: let the bygone be bygone, savor the present, and allow the future to take care of itself...
Though matters racial preoccupy the diarist, Notebooks also displays Fugard in relaxed moods: exalting the clean wind and open sea, excitedly reading Camus, Gogol and works of Zen. But the real strength of his personal record is its collection of stories overheard, incidents chanced upon, sorrows glimpsed by accident-the random scraps out of which Fugard fashioned his plays. As he listens to a vagrant's life story, accompanies a friend to court, watches two blacks carrying a wooden box through the night, Fugard registers and captures the keening images that are the very stuff of vibrant theater...
...policies. Tami, a three-member coalition partner, has threatened to bolt the government if bud get cuts drastically affect the poor. Another Likud member successfully introduced a motion in the Knesset demanding a de bate on whether new settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip should be fro zen because they are too costly...
...weekends, the free-spirited LeBaron gets away from the intense pressure of his work by speeding through the countryside around Boston on a Honda motorcycle or one of his two Yamahas. He may be the only pension-fund manager to have read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...