Word: matalin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EXPECTING. Political odd couple MARY MATALIN, 41, ex-Bush campaign aide, and JAMES CARVILLE, 50, Clinton strategist; a baby girl, sometime in July, to be named Matalin Mary Carville; in Washington...
...cons on homosexuals in the military, "but like Bill Clinton I have never been in the service and so have little to base my judgment on." She has decided, she says, not to read anything about the Clinton campaign in the memoir by political advisers James Carville and Mary Matalin. "I'm only reading the 'Mary' parts...
...presidential campaign; and, after the election, boy and girl reconcile and marry. It's Romeo and Juliet, His Girl Friday and Adam's Rib, with Bill Clinton and George Bush in supporting roles. With two publishing giants sharing the imprint, the hype machine for this joint memoir by Mary Matalin and James Carville is racing on overdrive: a love story for the ages set against the drama of the 1992 campaign. But if romance is your primary reason for reading All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (Random House and Simon & Schuster; 493 pages; $24), you are doomed...
...Matalin and Carville's book, as in real life, love keeps running far behind in the polls to the authors' passion for politics. The courtship of Mary and James (as they call themselves in the alternating monologues that are the book's format) is re-enacted in a single 11-page chapter and merely augmented by bittersweet scenes of them pining at a distance. The uninitiated may find it startling that Bush's political director (Mary) was besotted with Clinton's master strategist (James), but political Washington is smaller and more inbred than Lake Wobegon. Now if either of them...
...Jordan; he could be seen talking to a helmeted Hope High School Bobcats quarterback who distinctly resembled Mack McLarty. Sandy Berger, the deputy National Security Adviser, turned up as Yasser Arafat, his wife as Yitzhak Rabin. Arkansas pals Diane and Jim Blair pretended to be James Carville and Mary Matalin. Webb Hubbell and his wife came as the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and one guest, dressed as Lincoln, passed out little cards that read, "They have a nice bedroom in this house...