IT MIGHT NOT HAVE LURED MANY VIEWERS FROM All My Children. But when it came to furtive subplots, greed, jealousy and spine-chilling intimations of impending disaster, Bill Clinton's televised 19-hour economic talkathon was right up there with daytime's most overwrought soap fare.
On its face, the two-day Conference on the Economy, held in Little Rock, served as a remarkable national teach-in, where 329 economists, corporate executives, labor leaders and other interest-group advocates got a chance to pitch their favorite nostrums to the President-elect. It provided the public with an exhaustive review of the tough choices on taxes and spending that face...
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