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Scrapbook AN ABJECT LIE, EXPOSED AS TRUTH Early in 1993, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, now the administration's drug czar but then an assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was exiting the White House...
...That is eight more than the 102 Great Books commended to the attention of the literate by those two University of Chicago listing maniacs, Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler...
...The new farm bill, recently signed into law by the president, actually features a paragraph on the stuff...
...Forty-five percent of self-described "very egalitarian" whites "strongly" oppose such preferences, as do 60 percent of "slightly egalitarian" whites...
...This week, three films about one of the Rental List's favorite subjects, rich people: Just Tell Me What You Want, starring Alan King and Ali McGraw, 1981...
...So do 74 percent of Republicans and 66 percent of independents...
...We would fear beginning to dip into types like Hemingway or Steinbeck-those considered valuable or invaluable in their own recent lifetimes but now reduced to their actual, deeply minor stature...
...Wrong...
...Another great screenplay, this one by Preston Sturges, features one of the most hilarious scenes in screwball comedy: a food fight at the Automat...
...And while 44 percent of swing voters in Ohio said affirmative action would not affect their vote, "significantly more of the remaining swing voters say they would vote against [a pro-racial-preference] candidate than would vote for her/him (35 percent to 21 percent...
...At long last, Beltway comeuppance for the Health Nazis...
...Once again, when it comes to Bill Clinton's defending himself and his administration, the first casualty appears to be the truth...
...Said marketing will be enforced by a "Popcorn Board that shall consist of not fewer than 4 members and not more than 9 members...
...Seems it's not just bigots from the far-right fringe who've had their fill of quotas...
...Well, now a popcorn bill has come down the pike...
...So, in an effort to offer a little more variety, and to avoid scraping the bottom of the literary barrel, the Reading List will turn over this space on a rotating basis to the Rental List...
...The Rental List avoids the obvious, seeking obscurity instead...
...Researchers also analyzed whether "racism explains whites' opinions about affirmative action...
...THE RENTAL LIST The Reading List has been, with a few breaks, going for 32 weeks now, a total of 110 masterpieces commended to the attention of this magazine's audience...
...Researchers who analyzed national surveys between 1986 and 1994 and Ohio statewide surveys from 1995 and 1996 concluded that "candidates who favor racial preferences may fare poorly at the polls...
...Of the bill, the popcorn-hating Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest says, "It's an idiotic provision...
...Among whites in Ohio, 79 percent opposed racial preferences in hiring and promotion-55 percent "strongly," while 24 percent either opposed preferences "not strongly" or "leaned toward opposing" them...
...This admittedly foul-mouthed comedy about a tycoon and his disenchanted mistress is one of the best-written American movies and survives even McGraw's awful performance...
...As the administration now moves between hardcovers, the anti-military ugliness of the still-protected Clintonite has been amply confirmed (not only by Birnbaum, but also by Elizabeth Drew in her book on the White House) and is no "abject lie...
...He encountered a Clinton staffer, young and female...
...They found that even a "large portion of those most committed to egalitarianism still oppose racial preferences in the marketplace...
...AFFIRMATIVE UNPOPULARITY The Institute for Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati has released some polling data on affirmative action that bode ill for Bill Clinton in November...
...MADONNA WITH CHILD ORVILLE REDDENBACHERWINS...
...Those repeating the story "should be ashamed of themselves," he declared...
...Moreover, "Myers also gave McCaffrey's daughter a job in her office over the summer," "to help make amends...
...Better still, it "plays a significant role in the economy of the United States" and therefore "must be of high quality, readily available, handled properly and marketed efficiently to ensure that the benefits of popcorn are available to the people of the United States...
...In Madhouse, a forthcoming book about the administration, Jeffrey Birnbaum reports that then-press secretary Dee Dee Myers "sought [McCaffrey] out and discussed the problem...
...Note to the late F Scott Fitzgerald: Looks like you're going to make it, and Ernie isn't...
...It's ridiculous that Congress is carrying water for popcorn farmers when there are so many other important things to worry about...
...Nationally, fully 58 percent of white Democrats "strongly" oppose racial preferences in the workplace...
...Like how chimichangas are clogging up our arteries...
...Rarely has wealthy indolence ever gotten such a cool-eyed treatment, as when Sarah Miles looks out upon a pristine morning and moans, "Another f-g beautiful day...
...Two years ago, the Center for Science in the Public Interest gave us the scare that rocked Reddenbacher by claiming "theater popcorn ought to be the Snow White of snacks, but instead it's the Godzilla...
...Questioned about it after a speech at the U.S...
...For that reason, Democratic politicians might be well-advised to avoid a campaign fought on racial preferences...
...41 percent opposed them...
...The true story of a murder in colonial Kenya, circa 1940...
...Having since done similar takeouts on nearly everything that can be ingested, the Center had us believing at the time that our fatty hearts were about to stop beating in our greasy chest cavities, because a medium bag of buttered popcorn had the same artery-clogging potential as a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, steak dinner, and Big Mac and large fries combined...
...Popcorn," it states, "is an important food that is a valuable part of the human diet...
...Easy Living, starring Jean Arthur, 1937...
...McCaffrey told some colleagues about the incident, and soon it made its way into the press...
...And it's just what all nonprofiteer scare-scientists want, right...
...The Rental List will offer you little-known but worthwhile titles to look for in your local video store...
...I don't talk to the military," she snapped...
...White Mischief, starring Joss Ackland, 1987...
...Barry McCaffrey, now the administration's drug czar but then an assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was exiting the White House through the southwest gate...
...Both actions," Birnbaum writes, "helped repair troubled relations between the White House and the Pentagon...
...The Reading List discovered last week, to its horror, that it had begun mentioning works previously recommended, which is doubtless necessary, as its effort to keep the focus largely on the best that has been thought and said leaves relatively little room to maneuver...
...Among black Ohioans, 49 percent favored preferences...
...Later, though, the Washington Post confirmed the story, and Clinton jogged with McCaffrey, offered him a promotion, and generally made nice...
...Jay Presson Allen's screenplay manages to wring humor even out of cremation...
...A sable coat falls from a Fifth Avenue apartment onto the head of a working girl, who finds herself thrust into high society...
...Good morning," he said...
...Naval Academy, Clinton denounced reports of the snub as an "abject lie," "made up out of whole cloth...
Vol. 1 • April 1996 • No. 32
