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Along with such Clinton campaign veterans as George Stephanopoulos and Mandy Grunwald, I spend my waking hours trying to decipher a political riddle far more baffling than Hillary Clinton's uncanny knack for picking winners in the commodities markets. Who is "Anonymous," the reclusive author of Primary Colors (Random House; $24), the sensitively wrought, deftly drawn, acid-tongued political novel that is a thinly veiled re-creation of the 1992 Democratic primary race...
...mistress about me." Loli is indeed constant, until she meets Marijo (Balasko), a butch musician. Marijo fulfills all the popular lesbian stereotypes: she has short hair, a gruff manner and a weight problem; in the kitchen she's better with wrenches than with sauces. But she also has a knack for intimacy, and that's what Loli desperately needs. A good-night kiss from Marijo, some romantic music, and eureka! Loli discovers she has a genius for sexuality. She insists on splitting her week between Marijo and Laurent--who realizes, with the grimace of surrender, that he must now pour...
...they are executed well; Willard, constrained by a stereotyped character of the father, achieves some genuinely dramatic scenes with McCarthy in the mental hospital. Both of Dickey's roles call for broad comedy, which she performs expertly. As she proved in last year's "Goodnight Desdemona," Dickey has a knack for zaniness, and she is funny almost every time she's on stage. Popo Martin, the girl in the hospital, is an irritating caricature, but Dickey does all that can be done with...
DIED. RUDY PERPICH, 67, Governor of Minnesota, 1977-79, 1983-91; from colon cancer; in Minneapolis. His record 10 years in office mixed a knack for making headlines (with notions such as selling the Governor's mansion) with a yen for making history: the nation's largest mall, a state arts high school, unprecedented opportunities for women and minorities in government...
...genius, yet both radiated qualities of leadership with an infectious confidence and openheartedness that endeared them to the nation. Whether President Clinton will be so endeared remains a puzzle. That he is a Rhodes scholar makes him certifiably brainy, but his emotional intelligence is shaky. He obviously has the knack for establishing rapport with people, but he often appears so eager to please that he looks weak. "As for controlling his impulses," says Willamette's Ellis, "Clinton is terrible...