Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.life From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Clinton craze continues Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 14:37:03 EST Message-ID: \SE D;LIFE;THE MAG TRADE \HD Clinton craze continues \BY Cynthia Grenier \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES Have you had it with all the magazines featuring that plump, beaming Arkansas face? Now comes the New Republic with who else on its cover and - surprise - a cover line, "Bill Clinton for President," with an editorial endorsement within. GQ has an article called "Huck and Tom," an extended conceit by that weary, onetime gadfly Gore Vidal, with Al Gore decorously positioned on the cover behind Mr. Clinton's right shoulder. Those seeking relief from all the galloping Clintonmania should find comfort in the National Review with its delightfully outrageous cover of Bill and Hillary Clinton riding into town, a banner of Hamelot floating over their heads. To say nothing of the article's wicked vision of life in the nation's capital in the first year of a Clinton regime. The New York Review of Books gives us celebrated cartoonist David Levine's rendering of the Arkansas Kid in mortar board and hayseed together with three featured articles on its cover. Unless you're a mad Clintonite, better to skip them and go to the absolutely splendid piece by David Remnick. Nominally a review of Gen. Dimitri Volkogonov's book, "Stalin: Triumph & Tragedy," it details revelations from the files of the Communist Party and the KGB in the post-Gorbachev era. It also is singularly moving. TOP 50 SUBCABINET JOBS If you thought Xerox machines were heating up all over town last week with Penthouse's December Gennifer Flowers show-and-tell issue, expect to see them positively smoking as they turn out copies of galleys from Government Executive magazine due midweek at $10 a pop. This special issue identifies the 50 vital subcabinet appointments that hold the key to the president's prospects for success in shaping policy and effecting change. There's guaranteed to be a big shakeup in these positions for the next four years. Word has it that the White House is quietly collecting resumes in the event that President Bush ekes out a Harry Trumanlike win. The publication circulates monthly to an audience of 60,000 senior federal executives. Published by National Journal Inc., a unit of Times-Mirror Co., it sells for $4 an issue. Subscriptions at $30 a year from National Journal, 1730 M St., Washington, D.C. 20036. GETTING LIGHTER The Washingtonian is breaking from the political pack for its November cover story: dates from hell. Written by Lisa DePaulo, who experienced Washington as a single woman last year, it details some of the dating horrors undergone by her and other women here. The article ought to generate some pretty good letters to the editor. To show it's not all fluff, the magazine also features National Editor Henry Jaffe's solid profile of Democratic National Committee Chairman Ron Brown. Entertainingly enough, Mademoiselle's November issue also is into dating, if in a somewhat more positive mode. A survey of a representative cross-section of women and a few men reveals that 90 percent of the respondents believe "the classic date" must involve dinner. As for who picks up the tab, most agree that although the woman should offer to pay, no man should let her. And to prove the magazine has its serious side, Sheila Kaplan, a senior reporter at Legal Times, profiles the "Nasty Girls in Washington." These are the controversial female lobbyists whose jobs are to persuade lawmakers to write policy favorable to the organizations they represent - like the Tobacco Institute and the National Broiler Council. LAST BUT HARDLY LEAST No doubt you're all waiting impatiently to learn what Murphy Brown will name her new baby. Well, TV Guide tells us in its Oct. 31 issue. The kid's name is Avery, in memory of Murphy's mother (played by the late actress Colleen Dewhurst). Cynthia Grenier's "The Mag Trade" appears Mondays. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM