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Gore's appeal to moderates, his easy rapport with black leaders, and the fact that he will be the only white Southerner with a bloc of delegates constitute a large pile of chips. Says Nathan Landow, a fund raiser who helped coax Gore into the race: "If he doesn't get the top spot, he is the obvious running mate for any Northerner under any scenario, including a late entry by Mario Cuomo. Al Gore would bring all the necessary pieces...
...COUNTERLIFE by Philip Roth. In a metaphysical thriller, Nathan Zuckerman, the author's durable doppelganger, once again becomes an instrument for examining the relationship between fact and fiction...
RAISING ARIZONA Nathan Arizona Jr., that is -- the infant kidnaped by a young couple who are aching to be parents. In this wonderfully bizarre romantic comedy, Auteurs Joel and Ethan Coen prove themselves Young Hollywood's last best hope...
Meese may be merely an innocent victim; he has testified before the McKay grand jury five times, answering all questions put to him. Nathan Lewin, one of Meese's personal lawyers, put the rosiest possible hue on McKay's announcement, saying he was "gratified" that the "most thorough investigation ever conducted of the personal finances of a public official . . . had been concluded at this time favorably to Attorney General Meese." Meese's patron, the President, once again asserted his confidence in his Attorney General...
...words, a mimed gesture, perhaps some sound effects (a boy blowing a train whistle, a man whinnying like a horse) suffice to define the space and locate the scene. With a minimum of identifying costume, actors shift character: when the young lovers (Daniel Nathan Spector and Louise Roberts) have a first tentative date at a soda fountain, Holbrook abruptly becomes the attendant who serves them. As Wilder points up through risible "lectures" about this archetypal town's economy, politics, demographics and even geology, what matters about its people is not the naturalistic detail but the philosophic essence...