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...flame-throwing challenger Linda Smith, a second-term Republican Congresswoman, has built a reputation for trashing money-grubbing colleagues whose spines drip into their shoes at the mere mention of campaign-finance reform. "When have I ever been obedient?" she was overheard asking an aide by telephone last week...
There are those who have criticized Glenn's mission as a mere publicity stunt to revitalize NASA's flagging space program. After all, Glenn is merely a guinea pig on the nine-day journey. Dubbed "Payload Specialist 2," he is the lowest ranking member of the crew...
...about life through a child's eyes." In the span of two hours, Williams showed so much of herself, one was left ashamed. Did she not care that the audience had given nothing of themselves? But it is this exact artistic truth without expectation of sympathy that transcends mere integrity, that makes Williams' music so inviting. Speaking about "Right In Time," an achingly passionate ballad of lost love, Williams related that "on Good Morning America, they wanted us to leave out that line about me `lying on my back and moaning at the ceiling'...We left in anyway...
...undercut by the way the movie seems to want to characterize him. While Dussander, with a grey beard and wire-rimmed glasses, is a picture a masculine restraint, this man, with bald head and flabby features, sobbing hopelessly at the horror of it all, is portrayed as a mere child by comparison. It is this sort of portrayal that makes Apt Pupil a movie unforgettable and unforgivable...
WASHINGTON: Democrats are back on the attack -? at least as far as their depleted funds will allow. A couple of days after the GOP launched a $10 million campaign of negative commercials packed with oblique references to the Lewinsky affair -? and a mere four days before the midterm elections -? the Democratic National Committee has slapped together a couple of last-minute rebuttals. And in true Clintonian tradition, the ads are "positive-negative" -? that is, attacking opponents while effortlessly appearing to be still talking about the issues. "Republicans -? so intent on attacking the President they?ve forgotten about us," says...