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Most of the commuters exiting the 34th Street subway stop last Monday morning treated Democrat Ruth Messinger with resolute indifference. But they weren't the demoralizing ones. They were those who felt bad for her, like George, a 33-year-old accountant. After pronouncing that incumbent Rudy Giuliani is rash and a bad listener, he strode over to Messinger and clasped her hand. "Not this time," he consoled, as the smile vanished from the candidate's face...
...boring and meaningless. But in tiny, sad moments like those at the subway stop, one can see how remarkable an election it really is. Five years ago, Messinger was a pillar of the earnest liberal establishment that ran New York. Last Monday, at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 34th Street, she was a figure of deep marginality...
Under new artistic director AnnaMarie Holmes, the Boston Ballet opens its 34th season with an old favorite, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, dedicated to the memory of Boston Ballet dancer Heidi Guenther, who passed away this summer. Romeo is dazzling, Juliet the epitome of youthful innocence, and the choreography... all but ruins the production...
...York is going through one of its up periods. I have never seen Manhattan looking so prosperous. Somebody planted petunias in huge hangers up and down the street-lamps of 34th Street. Lower Sixth Avenue is a refurbished shoppers mecca. And in place of the old, ugly little traffic-island cum death trap on the corner of my tiny three-block long Greenwich Village street sits a new, brilliantly designed safe and elegant little garden. There are still homeless people sleeping in Abingdon Square, but someone has planted cosmos-flowers there too. I've never seen such things outside Vermont...
...senior captain Mitty Arnold suggests, it is respectable to come back "even with a winning record." Harvard, ranked 34th nationally, did just that, gutting out a 3-2 trip, bringing its overall record...