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- GRAPEVINE, Page 33FORWARD SPIN
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- BORN IN A LOG MANSION?
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- George Herbert Walker Bush will never be able to claim the
- trendiest qualification for high office: childhood deprivation.
- It worked for Clarence Thomas. Mario Cuomo rattles on about it
- (the apartment-over-the-grocery-store bit). Tom Harkin now hopes
- to ride it to the White House.
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- UNEXPECTED FORCE
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- What a difference a year makes. In the peace and quiet of
- his Supreme Court chambers, unassuming Justice David Souter is
- emerging as a candid, erudite and surprisingly forceful leader.
- Expect eventual consideration as Chief Justice.
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- THE MOM BRIGADE
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- Ferne Milken, Molly Pollard and Sophie Altman are pulling
- out all the stops to defend their sons -- junk-bond king
- Michael, convicted spy Jonathan and former U.S. B.C.C.I. counsel
- Robert. Better watch out for Fannie Gotti.
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- PUBLIC APPEARANCES
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- Before their political campaigns, David Duke had cosmetic
- surgery and Doug Wilder shaved off his mustache (no one with a
- mustache has won the White House in more than a half-century).
- Next: the new Ted Kennedy, who is said to have lost 35 lbs.
- preparing for his Palm Beach testimony.
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- EXCUSES
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- Guns don't commit crimes, parents do. From tales of incest
- and divorce to complaints of less serious parental
- shortcomings, everyone seems to be blaming Mom and Pop for
- whatever ails. Get ready for lawyers pleading the Dr. Spock
- Defense.
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- WEIRD FOOTWEAR
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- Last summer's fashionable footwear was the hiking sandal,
- cute but not much good on rocky slopes. Now women are wobbling
- around again on those high-altitude platform shoes. Here comes
- a boom in orthopedic practice.
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