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Holway and Sullivan have voiced emphases closer to the political center. Holway has called for "more compassionate government"--and more stringent criminal sentencing. Sullivan's recent campaign announcement called on business and industry to augment social programs. She has also emphasized the housing and MBTA reform as issues to be addressed. Holway called Sullivan "a formidable opponent," rating White's candidacy as less of a challenge to his campaign...
With Hannah and Her Sisters, though, the hedonistic impulse that has driven the arts both high and low for more than two decades appears to be at long last exhausted. Hannah and Her Sisters runs against the modern sensibility by suggesting that faith, family and community augment--rather than compromise--our freedom and happiness. It steers the difficult course between the tempting pitfalls of romanticism and nihilism--sentiments, or sirens, which have received too much for too long. The film asks us--in the unabashed words of the song Holly sings--to "be old fashioned with...
Cleopatra, who must have spent hours rimming her eyes with kohl each morning, would no doubt have loved the latest gift of cosmetic surgery: tattooing a thin dark line along the upper and lower lids to augment or replace conventional eyeliner. Since the operation was introduced in the U.S. a year ago, about 15,000 of her modern-day sisters have scurried off to ophthalmologists, dermatologists and plastic surgeons in unblinking pursuit of a fuss-free made-up look. The operation appeals especially to athletic women who do not want to worry about runny eyeliner and to those with poor...
...honest politician in a corrupt milieu. But a chapter deleted from the recently published autobiography of Thomas L. Chadbourne, a wheeling-dealing corporation lawyer, claims that during the 1920s Chadbourne gave Smith cash and stock options worth $400,000. The motive was high-minded: the payments were designed to augment Smith's $10,000-a-year Governor's salary so the Happy Warrior could live "without bread-and- butter worries." Chadbourne, who died in 1938, admits he was miffed when Smith later refused to support a subway-fare increase, which would have hugely added to the value of Chadbourne...
...administration knows a visit to a Nazi cemetery is wrong. Administration officials were testing public reaction, and when it was indignant, claimed the plan was "tentative" when the original itinerary contained no such word. Only public pressure can prevent such moral oversites from occuring, and only apathetic criteria can augment them Reagan might change his mind, but the intent was there, Kenneth Bialk chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, says, "What kind of symbolism does one attach to a visit that includes a ceremony to the agents of the Holocaust at the same time...