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Bartlett, a folksy type who likes to quote his 12-year-old granddaughter, looks to be a little bit Harry Truman and a little bit Jimmy Carter. It's a killer combination, but one that can suck the air out of rooms, and it's not surprising that "The West Wing's" hitherto frantic pace comes to a grinding halt when Sheen enters the room late in the first episode. Sorkin's a sucker for speechifying (his "A Few Good Men" supplied Jack Nicholson with one of the actor's most famous monologues) and yes, it's true, that all the other characters on "The West Wing" talk a lot and mostly very fast, just the way they do on Sorkin's ABC show, "Sports Night." Most of the time, though, I kind of like that. Where it gets problematic for me is when one of them says something I cant imagine any real person saying, such as the moment -that occurs early in the first episode when deputy communications director Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) cant resist impressing the stranger he's just bedded with a translation of the acronym "POTUS." If you've seen the zillions of NBC promos for "The West Wing," you already know that POTUS stands for President of the United States. toobad, because you're inawhile.1 This Hail to tSie oEiief series on presidency could be a winner I I Family owned.

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