Word: cleverisms
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...BOTTOM LINE: A foppish bloodsucker gets conned out of his socks in a narration that is very campy, very clever...
Clinton's election to the presidency offers Reich the biggest stage yet on which to audition both his ideas and his clever showmanship. The President- elect last week summoned Reich from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Little Rock, Arkansas, to lead the transition team that will help him choose his economic personnel, organization and policies. In an interview Reich insisted that it would be "wrong to presume" that he would have any position in the new Administration. But other Clinton advisers fully expect that the new President will want Reich -- probably as domestic-policy adviser or head of a new Economic Security...
...confusing, a pungent brew of alcoholic reverie and post-election hysteria. Clinton broke 270 votes, and the hall seethed with delight and unrestrained hugging. Perot took to the dance floor and Bush, looking rather pleased with himself--"Look Barbara, I've lost an election. Aren't I clever?"--committed the decade's most revealing slip in thanking, yes thanking, Governor Bill. Democrats in the hall took their long-awaited chance to fondle each other, election results from God knows where flickered seductively on screen, and, oops, that was my last drop of the noxious brew...
...impressions" of the Gerald R. Ford Administration (1974-77) for possible inclusion in the association's triquarterly journal, Retrospect? Well, would he ever. In fact, Clayton is prodded into such an orgy of reminiscence that he produces a manuscript almost diabolically unsuited to academic publication. That, according to the clever premise of John Updike's 15th novel, is why Clayton's ramblings must occupy a book of their...
...enough to say his name five times. Now he's lusting to make a curious grad student (Virginia Madsen) his charnel bride. Borrowing from Stephen King and Freddy Krueger (while paving the way for a batch of Candyman sequels), director Bernard Rose deftly juggles sense and slaughter. This is clever, spooky stuff, with a lingering autumn chill...