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Scrapbook The Standard Question: Everybody knows Colin Powell is a popular guy. But how strong is he as a presidential candidate when matched one-on-one against the Republican party's top sluggers,...
...The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoyevsky A negative example: the worst father in all literature...
...During Gov...
...Then a clarinetist began to play "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes...
...You Know You're Gay When . . . , published by Contemporary Books, is part of the new gay publishing craze...
...Steve Merrill's opening peroration, the lights went out...
...You know you're gay when . . . you'd gladly trade in all your Louis Vuitton to play Norma Desmond...
...No way of saying how the dynamics of an actual campaign would play out, but numbers like these will keep the Powell boom-let alive and well for the next while...
...Dombey and Son, by Charles Dickens...
...Send submissions to: Our Weekly Reader, The Weekly Standard, 1150 17th St...
...The Reading List: Since we are supposed to say that the ostensible goals of the Million Man March are laudable, here are some books the marchers might want to read if they genuinely wish to assert and accept their responsibilities as men and fathers: P?re Goriot, by Honor...
...Clinton Family Values: In a seedy attempt to sully the Clinton's pro-family credentials, the Manchester Guardian announced in a recent headline: "Clintons Are Playing The Family Card...
...But did Begala leave his unofficial White House post because he talked too much or alienated Leon Panetta...
...Because the concert hall is a "smoke-free" building, the brass informed him that he would not be permitted to smoke, even in his private dressing room...
...All the King's Men, The Oscar-winning movie version of Robert Penn Warren's novel about Huey Long, with a spellbinding Broderick Crawford as the most dangerous demagogue in American history...
...Dole prevailed, 50 percent to 39 percent-not much of a margin for the "front-runner" against an unannounced candidate...
...With that, he collected his instrument, packed, and left town...
...But most interesting was the disappearing act Dole pulled during Phil Gramm's exchange with Cameron...
...If those few people who were still watching CNN didn't notice Dole's absence, that was due to some clever advance work by Dole's staff: His handlers had already extracted a promise from WMUR that the camera was not to pan the faces of the other candidates while any of them was talking...
...Ditto his predecessor Lloyd Cutler, who set a self-imposed time limit before accepting the job because he couldn't wait to get back to his "young, peppy wife," sexagenarian Polly Kraft...
...New Hampshire Hijinks: That was some debate they had up there in Concord, N.H., last week on television station WMUR...
...Don't try this at home...
...Mom for a while, go to PTA meetings and pack lunches," said Neel, before quadrupling his salary along with Paster in the private sector...
...I'm going to be Mr...
...The Movie List: Those who enjoyed the March and Louis Farrakhan's role in it so very much can always keep that special feeling alive through the pleasures of video rentals...
...But I cannot abide the petty tyranny into which this country is falling, and neither should you...
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...All this is striking news to those who have always assumed that a conservative like Gramm would beat a moderate like Powell among the supposedly red-meat, angry-white-male Republican faithful...
...Remember, you're invited to submit Reading Lists of your own...
...Light Up, Bright and Dangerous Object: Janos Starker, the great Hungarian cellist, struck a memorable blow for a precious freedom now under assault-smoking...
...And it resembled nothing so much as a bad cable-access show...
...Starker, taken aback, appealed for reconsideration, requesting that he be notified as to the final decision as soon as possible, even if it was in the middle of rehearsal...
...Pshaw...
...Because he feared Gramm was going to turn and ask him, point-blank and on camera, to take a pledge-a letter that would commit him to $245 billion in tax cuts...
...Some recommendations: Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl's account of another mass gathering-in Nuremberg, 1934, with happy Nazis cavorting to the strains of Adolf Hitler's soothing baritone...
...it was a chance for WMUR political reporter Carl Cameron to watch as the candidates kowtowed before him...
...Why...
...But how strong is he as a presidential candidate when matched one-on-one against the Republican party's top sluggers, Bob Dole and Phil Gramm...
...a big bearded two-stepper makes you feel like Patsy Cline at the junior prom...
...The result: Powell 60, Gramm 28...
...The Clinton administration has always been strong on this issue...
...I have lived through communism...
...The cellist returned to the stage, and addressed the orchestra, saying roughly this: "I have lived through fascism...
...In a national survey in early October, Goeas asked Republican primary voters to make a choice: If the race came down to Powell vs...
...You know you're gay when...
...Last year, he traveled to Columbia, S.C., to conduct a master class at the university there and play the Elgar Concerto with the South Carolina Philharmonic...
...There was a pall for a minute or two...
...Elmer Gantry, featuring Burt Lancaster's brilliant portrait of a pulpit-hogging charlatan...
...What Would Colorado Say?: "You know you're absolutely gonna be gay when . . . your third-grade teacher asks you for decorating tips...
...Dole, whom would they prefer...
...And throughout, the viewers went out-of the room, or changed the channel...
...The tale of an impoverished old man who, it transpires, has sacrificed everything to make sure his daughters marry well...
...Like recently resigned Abner Mikva for one, who left not because of the perpetual litigious morass that is this White House Counsel's office, but because he wanted to spend more time with his family...
...Actually, it wasn't a forum...
...When former chief lobbyist Howard Paster and deputy chief of staff Roy Neel had their turf sprayed by bigger dogs, they checked out altogether, claiming they weren't getting enough family time...
...Not fair...
...Actually, it wasn't a debate...
...It was a forum...
...Said Begala: "I want to be a better father...
...The tale of a cruel and heartless father who learns the meaning of love from his desperately ill son Paul...
...I am looking so forward to becoming irrelevant...
...CNN reported a horrifyingly low rating for the spectacle...
...Ed Goeas of the Tarrance Group found out for us...
...After all, many of its alumni have staked their careers on it...
...Later, during Bob Dole's portion, the sound went out...
...And its release indicates one thing: When it comes to jokes about limp wrists, interior decoration, Broadway musicals, and Garland m?re et fille (nom: Minnelli), Pat Buchanan could say nothing more stereotypical about homosexuals than the gay community itself...
...But the startling result Goeas found was when he matched Powell against Gramm...
...regulations forbade...
...The article suggested that the First Couple's use of Dan Quayle-like terminology during the Beijing maelstrom was an eelish ploy to ward off conservative critics...
...Sorry-they come from a bizarre little book especially written and designed to serve as a stocking stuffer for the homosexual male in your life...
...The title character, a notorious miser, has the world opened up to him when he becomes the guardian of a foundling left on his doorstep...
...Sobering news for Gramm, who has been running second, if a distant second, to Dole throughout the year...
...de Balzac...
...Surely these cracks, these grotesque caricatures, these outrageous defamations of the good name of gays everywhere are the work of some raging homophobe, someone deserving of a picket, an ACT-UP demonstration, a rumored outing...
...For those few minutes, the majority leader simply vanished from the stage...
...Silas Marner, by George Eliot...
...NW, Suite 505, Washington D.C...
...Indeed, it was during rehearsal that he was summoned backstage: No, he would not be allowed to smoke, even in his private room...
...Paul Begala knows something about that, too, in his new incarnation as professor and columnist for George...
...And you know how well Dole does with pledges in New Hampshire...
Vol. 1 • October 1995 • No. 6
