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...front-row seat, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp < nodded to Reagan's cadences, took notes as if he were preparing his 1996 plans to chase Clinton out of the Oval Office. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, another incipient contender, hovered on an end seat with a satchel of papers. (They were, it turned out, plans for the Iraq strike.) So even in this rite of passage was the hope of renewal...
...entrenchment of the Right--I invested in a small bouteille of Wild Turkey, into which to peer as swathes of elephants prepared to tread and defecate on major states. The Kennedy School of Government was already in Democratic rapture, as I cunningly displaced two old ladies from their front-row seats ("Look madam, there's free sex over there"--and off they rushed). But, decadently supine on my purchased seats, I felt it unwise to trust polls and estimates favoring Clinton. In Britain they are usually wildly askew, as the selfish tax-evaders exculpate their vices in regular lying...
...laughed a lot. I fell asleep a lot. My feeling is, if the movie itself is awful, nothing's going to save it, not pre-Claymation giant lizards on the big screen, not wisecracks from an actor and two puppets who acknowledge the misery of it all from their front-row seats...
...decades, as The Post recalled, the U.S. has beckoned the world's "starving, [its] poor, [its] huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Now it beckons its Guccis, its Rothschilds, its Mercedes, yearning for front-row Lakers tickets...
...reporter in Kuwait when Iraqi troops invaded on Aug. 2. Her calm, lucid eyewitness reports -- some printed without a byline to disguise the fact that she was there -- will surely be among the prime candidates for journalism prizes next spring. As Murphy wrote in one dispatch, she had "a front-row seat for witnessing a small nation being crushed by its larger neighbor...