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- <text id=91TT2544>
- <title>
- Nov. 11, 1991: Forward Spin
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 11, 1991 Somebody's Watching
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 33
- Forward Spin
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> BORN IN A LOG MANSION?
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> UNEXPECTED FORCE
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> THE MOM BRIGADE
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> PUBLIC APPEARANCES
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> EXCUSES
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> WEIRD FOOTWEAR
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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