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The summit, "with its all-night sessions and constant brushes with disaster, was a setting in which Clinton's penchant for keeping all the balls in the air at once seemed to thrive," said the Post . "Clinton relied on a personal style of charm, persistence, and language that could be artfully imprecise," particularly when Netanyahu sought his assurance that the United States would release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
The LAT also does a front-page review of the Supreme Court's performance, emphasizing the many ways in which its decisions stymied positions near and dear to Bill Clinton, whereas the Post 's treatment focuses not on the political, but the personal, noting that in considering medically assisted suicide, Justices O'Connor and Stevens no doubt drew on their own brushes with cancer, and that for the decision overturning suppression of cyberporn, the justices logged on to the Internet.
While FDA Rule is nowhere near as dramatic as other spots of its ilk (one shows a tobacco junkie smoking through a hole in her neck; another, a teen smoker's face putrefying, shedding worms, as she brushes her teeth; a third, Marlboro Man Wayne McLaren dying of lung cancer), it makes its point: Hook one kid early with promotions, and peer pressure will do the rest.
In the next painting, Pirate (also 1981), de Kooning picks up his brushes again.
Except the lawyers have traded their fine brushes for broad ones--paint rollers, perhaps--and the Microsoft case appears even smaller than it did before.
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