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...come to pass. If Hall gets the headlines with shows featuring Ice-T on the hot seat or Bill Clinton torturing a saxophone, Leno still wins where it counts: equaling or surpassing Carson's ratings and ad revenue. The difference is that all this was to be accomplished without sweat or rancor. Who, after all, could get mad at Jay? Everyone knew him as a stand-up comic who was also a stand...
...maliciousness grows increasingly appealing, image has grown increasingly important. Public figures don't necessarily have to be attractive--observe Ross Perot--but they do need charisma. And their every move is subject to hyper-examination. Back in the 1960 Presidential debates, Richard M. Nixon drew scorn for his sweat and his misapplied TV makeup. today, pundits overanalyze Barbara Bush's faux pearls. It's all part of the same game: looks first and substance later, if ever...
When the tournament ended, with the Americans barely breaking a sweat except on the golf course, where they seemed to spend most of their time, everyone was ready to concede the gold medal in Barcelona to the assemblage now and forever more to be known simply as the Dream Team. Nevada bookmakers, who never miss an opportunity to make a dollar, have fastidiously refused to post odds or take a bet. The only surer wager than the Dream Team may be that George Foreman will not try to make it next as a featherweight...
...brutalized him. To wage the flat-out drive necessary to give him a shot at winning would demand more money and emotional energy than Perot chose to spend. The main question was how to explain it, particularly to the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who had invested their own sweat -- and in some cases cash -- getting Perot's name on state ballots by means of petition drives...
...there they were, two perfectly coiffed, freshly scrubbed, oh-so-earnest fortysomething white Baptist Southerners in blue suits and ties, ignoring the sweat on their faces (as did the adoring blond wives at their sides), two self-confident moderates proclaiming themselves The Answer, The Change. They will rescue us from our malaise, says Clinton, because Americans don't really hate politics, we are just "fed up with failure" -- and failure is decidedly not what these two survivors are about. How could it be? Clinton and Gore lust for the pinnacle, but their motives are pure: "I tell you truthfully," said...