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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Solon's is not bad advice for George Bush or the pundits who have already given him this election. While neither was looking, Mike Dukakis has been busy preparing for what may be the coup of the campaign. Barring any last minute glitches or changes of heart he will appear on a special 90 minute edition of ABC's Nightline tonight, alone. Bush refused ABC's offer to appear together with Dukakis. For Dukakis, who has come out of the second debate slipping fast in the polls, all of this could not have come at a better time...
...short, if anything is evidently clear about Dukakis's appearance tonight, it is that the novelty, scope and timing of the event make it a critical make-or-break time for him. Barring any glitches or changes of heart Dukakis will appear tonight on Nightline; barring any glitches or changes of heart, though, he stands a good chance of losing the election. Tonight allows him to put precisely such a glitch in the plans of Bush, a modernday Croesus...
West of Del Rio, Texas grows dryer by the mile. Tumbleweed bounces across the road and windmills draw up precious water for cattle. On the horizon, dust-shrouded hills appear, blue and mysterious-looking from afar. Roadrunners, heads down and tails up, sprint across the highway. River and road separate here as the Rio Grande, cutting through deep limestone canyons, makes a wide arc that has given this bulge of Texas the nickname Big Bend. Driving south through Alpine and Marfa, I see the border again at Presidio...
...belts and carry it with a kind of clanking Modern Times idiot ingenuity up a ramp to be mechanically husked and then borne inside the maw of the factory to its fate. So much corn has an unexpected rich barnyard kind of smell, a cloying excess of smell. Bush appears with his two oldest grandchildren, walks toward a monster mound of corn and, as photographers record the event, he acts like a man waiting for a train on a platform. Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue appear, dressed in tall spike heels, skintight pedal pushers and Bush...
...museums to promote the fashion industry. According to the selected museums, the last such donation was in 1982. In February of that year she said she had told all her favorite designers that she would no longer accept any dresses on loan. The First Lady does not appear to have kept that promise...