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...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...
...media," the same individuals who like and admire Limbaugh are probably very seldom the same individuals who like and admire Stern. But just who are they? And why is each audience so fetched by its man? "All those 20 million people are not some kind of Nazis," Mary Matalin says of her fellow dittoheads. "What's really homogeneous about them is not their party affiliation but their mistrust of those they elect to lead them, mistrust of institutional media, inaccessibility to the system." Sounds not unlike Stern's fans, who, according to Robin Quivers, his radio sidekick of 12 years...
...says." Stern says his father continually screamed that he was a "moron." Neither dated much in high school. Both work very conscientiously and don't like vacations or pursue hobbies or very active social lives. (Limbaugh is friendly with baseball's George Brett, as well as the Mosbachers and Matalin; Stern says he pals around with literally no one, ever.) Both are shy and charming in real life. On the air (both work in midtown Manhattan), Limbaugh half-jokingly boasts he is "the epitome of morality and virtue" with "talent on loan from God," and Stern half- jokingly calls himself...