THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, August 30, 1996 TAG: 9608300711
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Compiled from reports by staff writers Guy Friddell and Warren
Fiske and from wire services.
LENGTH: 94 lines
Sorry, Ted: The GOP takes the all-time hyphen award
If the presidential race wasn't enough, check out the hyphen event. Mimicking the cadence of a withering speech delivered at the Republican convention by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, Sen. Ted Kennedy said the GOP platform is:
``The radical wish list of the education-cutting, environment-trashing, Medicare-slashing, choice-denying, tolerance-repudiating, gay-bashing, Social-Security-threatening, assault-rifle-coddling, government-closing, tax-loophole-granting, minimum-wage-opposing Republican majority that dominated the delegations in San Diego.''
For the record, the GOP out-hyphened the Democrats, 21 to 15.
This briefing is one Hillary will pass on
First, President Clinton got the boxers-or-briefs question.
Now, Hillary Rodham Clinton has gotten a pantyhose question.
Judy Markey and Kathy O'Malley, hosts of the ``Kathy and Judy'' radio show in Chicago, asked Hillary Clinton during an interview Wednesday to settle a debate between them: Should underpants be worn under or over pantyhose?
``I would have to give that question a lot more serious thought,'' Clinton replied - an artful dodge her husband might have used two years ago.
``Usually briefs,'' the president responded then when a 17-year-old girl - utilizing a clever softener, ``the world is dying to know'' - asked him on MTV whether he wore boxers or briefs.
We wonder if Bill wanted to be a hockey player
There go those wacky kids again.
Children's Express, a nonprofit news service produced by - you guessed it - children, reached Eugene McCarthy at his home in Virginia. The former senator and presidential candidate, now 80, said advice is the only thing he has left to give to America's youth. And here's a nugget:
``I'm always worried about presidents who say when they were 10 years old they decided they wanted to be president. They are not to be thinking about the presidency when they're 10 years old. They ought to be thinking about ice-skating or hockey or becoming a great artist or something of that kind.''
Intuition beats perspiration every time
Norfolk's Ann Fallon has been filing - on the Internet - letters to ``NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.''
An official selected her from the list of Virginia delegates. When Fallon asked why, the official replied, ``Intuition.''
Fallon loves to write, and has contributed to religious and civic publications. After attending a breakfast by Emily's List, a national group raising funds for women's campaigns, she noted that it was a new way in which women could have a voice in politics.
Hillary Clinton, speaking to the group Wednesday, called the organization ``a cross between a religious revival and aerobic classes.''
Is anyone else tired of the Macarena?
Fred and Ginger, watch out.
The day after the presidential election, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Al Gore will take over the dance floor - doing the Macarena, the first lady promises.
The vice president's deadpan rendition of the spicy Latin dance hit, where he stared motionless at the crowd, evoked a roar of laughter from convention delegates Wednesday night.
Later, he repeated his spoof at a post-convention party attended by Hillary Clinton, the first lady said on ABC's ``Good Morning America.''
Someone tried to teach Gore the flirty hand and swivel-hip movements, but ``Al just stood there and looked straight ahead,'' Hillary Clinton said.
``I don't know what it was, the late hour, I promised that the day after the election, Al Gore and I would dance the Macarena together,'' she said.
Etc.
For the majority of folks who came no closer to a star-studded party than to Mars, here are some of the weird and wonderful party things they missed:
Worst Pick-up Line: Overheard at Bobby Rush's Midnight Blues Cruise Sunday night, ``I'm the youngest voting-rights expert in seven Southern states.''
Goofiest Delegate Dance: Men in suits doing the limbo Sunday night at the Virgin Islands delegation party at DuSable Museum.
Worst Kennedy impersonation: At the party for George magazine - the hottest ticket in town - crowds got so heavy that guards cut off incoming guests, stranding the arriving Rep. Joseph Kennedy III.
``But I'm a Kennedy,'' he protested.
``That's what they all say,'' replied a guard. ILLUSTRATION: Photos
VICKI CRONIS/The Virginian-Pilot
Susan Wrenn, chair of the Virginia Democratic Party, dances with
Judy Anderson, right, at the end of the last daily delegate meeting
in Chicago.
During roll call of the states, President Clinton is shown on the
monitor as Ohio delegates clinched the nomination for him Wednesday.
KEYWORDS: DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION 1996 CHICAGO by CNB