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Unfortunately, Hart shouldn't--and hopefully will not--be president of the United States. The character defects that he displayed in the Donna Rice incident and those that emerged in its aftermath rule out Hart's ever sitting in the Oval Office. He still thinks the press alone is to blame for his problems, that his travails reflect not at all on himself. He's displayed no sign of a new understanding of himself or of his time that make him worthy of redemption. Let him write on policy-issues to his heart's content. Just...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: We Don't Gotta Have Hart | 12/17/1987 | See Source »

That is exactly the response proposed by the Miami Herald's Tom Fiedler, who was the lead reporter in the stakeout that broke the Gary Hart-Donna Rice story. Last week Fiedler wrote in a column that the "character issue" was now being carried to "absurd" lengths. David Broder of the Washington Post, the paper that delivered the final blow to Hart, also fretted. "It's time to slow down and take another look at what we're doing," Broder wrote, "before more damage is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Rethinking The Fair Game Rules | 11/30/1987 | See Source »

Richard Dawson plays the ratings-hungry game show host to near perfection, combining the geniality he used with contestants on "Family Feud" with the perspective of a prima donna power fiend. Schwarzenegger has some trouble when he has to string together several sentences at a time, but once the action gets going, he carries it along and delivers the punchy one-liner like no one else. He is paired with Maria Conchita Alonso, perhaps the only actress around with English enunciation as bad as Schwartzeneggar's. Still, she manages to give her character a toughness that keeps her from being...

Author: By Stephen Thau, | Title: Running Scared? | 11/20/1987 | See Source »

...keeps escalating past passion into mortal power struggles, in which the guilty are forever eliminating the slightly less guilty. But the film rescores, in melodrama's high pitch, the lament of any bright woman with a healthy carnal appetite: Why do men insist that you be either Donna Reed or Donna Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

This year incumbent Timothy J. Toomey Jr. won the most votes, raking in 3182 "number-ones," and passing the quota of 3215 votes needed to win after the third count, in which losing candidate Donna Brescia's votes were transferred...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: CCA, Independents to Share Power on School Committee | 11/10/1987 | See Source »

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