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...would Clinton want to plead not guilty by reason of addiction? Doubtful: it concedes too much. Which leaves this scenario: Bill and Hillary Clinton sit down with Barbara Walters in the White House family quarters. Barbara is empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution--the priestess of high colonics for the troubled celebrity mind. Her sacramental touch, her extreme unctuousness, is the very thing to preside over the tonal subtleties of this encounter--the faux intimacy, the clucking censure, the wet sympathy. Clinton and Walters might make beautiful music together, a harmony of ineffable falsenesses...
After the performance, the audience, actors and panelists--who included Barbara E. Johnson, Wertham professor of law and psychiatry in society, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Lawrence H. Tribe '62, Tyler professor of constitutional law--discussed the political content of Smith's latest work...
Morphing into Barbara Walters mode, I interviewed the man of the hour. I asked him if fixing garages were his summer or permanent employment; it turned out to be permanent and he, the company owner's son. I asked if he had a lot of business, did peoples' garage doors really break so frequently? Yes, it turns out that klutzes and shlamazels comprise a large portion of the local population...
...Reported by Andrew Keith/Chicago and Barbara Maddux/Greenwich
...call to offices, or services, start with Lauds at 2:25 in the morning and end with Compline at 7 in the evening. Many say night and day lose their meaning as they enter monkish time. "I come screaming in off the runway," says Joyce Bock, a Santa Barbara, Calif., marriage counselor. "This cools my jets." Most monasteries either ask for complete quiet or at least have silent hours. The idea is that in silence one can't hide from one's problems, or from God. "There's always someone who leaves," says Jack Pannell, a press aide to Georgia...