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...When you get down to the question of where the thread is being manufactured for caps that's the point the we just have no hope of ever getting into," he added...
Whence cometh BECK? An interesting insight to the singer's idiosyncrasies--the inadvisable suits, the inexplicable videos, the impenetrable lyrics--is hanging on the walls of New York City's Thread Waxing Space gallery in an exhibition called "Playing with Matches." Beck's grandfather Al Hansen was a member of Fluxus, a loosely knit group of conceptual artists who engaged in happenings, mostly in the '60s, but who still work today. At the launch of the exhibition in Santa Monica, Calif., in May and in New York City last week, Beck's brother Channing Hansen performed Elegy for the Fluxus...
...Someone's going to make that spot," says Republican consultant Stuart Stevens, who worked on the Dole campaign in 1996. "Obviously there's a qualitative difference between what Gore did and what Clinton did, but there's also a unifying thread: anyone from third grade on knows they weren't being honest, and people are sick of politicians who parse the truth." What's more, says Stevens, if Gore doesn't find a way to express his discomfort over Clinton's dalliance with an intern, "his lack of outrage will start to define him. At what point does his loyalty...
...sexual relationship with Monica -- and if Ken Starr doesn't have too strong a case on obstruction of justice, Clinton will be fine." But that's going to mean admitting to perjury as well, says Carney, or it just won't fly. If Bill confesses, "then tries to thread the needle on the definition of sex, a lot of Democrats will abandon him. He's got to give his party something redeeming to get behind...
...unless you are using it for a research paper, The Unknown City can be hard to get through. Perhaps it is a function of a culture that looks too much to happy endings, but as you read The Unknown City you find yourself waiting for an auspicious sign or thread of hope. None comes. Perhaps this is expected in a novel, but, in a sociological analysis documenting the lives of men and women only slightly older than ourselves, it is an absence that leaves you altogether unsettled...