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...have which constantly falls in 15- and 30-second bursts of commercial activity toward this, that, or the other extraneous matter. Many people come home at night and just flip on the television, and that's it. The discussion of all these side issues in the campaign, about the draft, for example, represent the same phenomenon. And a lot of people are, in a way, relieved to be pulled into something of that kind because it seems easier than thinking about how we're doing to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and how we're going to reduce...
Bill Clinton has had a harder time exorcising the ghosts of his past. Earlier in the campaign, those phantoms popped up in the form of Gennifer Flowers, marijuana use and questions about the draft. Last week the poltergeists were back on center stage, as an increasingly desperate George Bush attacked Clinton for protesting the Vietnam War while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1969 and for visiting Moscow in early 1970 during a school break. In terms that recalled the red-baiting tactics of the McCarthy era, Bush told CNN talk-show host Larry King that Clinton should "level with...
...well-orchestrated campaign of rumors, leaks and innuendos. They ranged from wild suggestions of KGB links, to reports that Clinton had held multiple passports under different names while at Oxford, to dark hints that the young Arkansan may even have been planning to renounce his citizenship to avoid the draft. If Bush did have evidence for such charges that Clinton could not explain away, the results could be devastating. But so far no shadow of proof was forthcoming...
...talking about the draft-record chicken or are you talking about the chicken in the Arkansas River?" Bush asked one plumed heckler last week. "Which one are you talking about? Which one? Get out of here. Maybe it's the draft? Is that what's bothering...
Arena Stage, the leading theater in the nation's capital, plainly doesn't think so. Nor do audiences for its zesty production: they find startling topicality in gibes that weren't born yesterday. Says artistic director Douglas Wager: "Apart from revisiting the librettists' first draft and incorporating some of Ira Gershwin's alternate lyrics, we haven't updated a thing. We haven't had to." The librettists were Morrie Ryskind and, ironically, Kaufman, who despite his woes with satire kept at it anyway. The humor is neither as rich nor as heartfelt as in his You Can't Take...