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...cannot fault Juliette N. Kayyem's sentiments for the "poor and oppressed" in her opinion piece of January 26, but her contention that the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and his school-of-Reginald Bacon politics are what the Democratic Party and the nation need is both unfortunate and unsupported by the 1988 campaign. The poor and oppressed of America hardly deserve the ignominy that whould likely result from association with Jackson...
...Reba McEntire) eager to employ their expensive arsenal against something, anything. The middle class, all four of them, is variously unaware, unconcerned and unprepared for emergency. Populism being the operative spirit of this genre, it is up to Perfection's two-man lower class, Val and Earl (adorable Kevin Bacon and solid Fred Ward), to get their betters organized. They make their living doing odd jobs, bicker laconically, dream of urban glamour, can't imagine how to obtain it. But staring into a graboid's gaping mouth, they're the kind of guys -- resourceful, practical, unflappable -- you want on your...
...might call it buying a pig in a poke. Fifteen months ago, Ronald and Mary Kalish of Arizona adopted Sir Francis Bacon (Frank, for short) as a pet, and their life has never been quite the same. After supper, when the family gathers around the TV, Frank will squeal and howl if the channel is switched from his favored westerns or cartoons. Come bedtime, there is only one place where he will sleep: on the Kalishes' king-size mattress, snuggled between Mary and Ronald. If reproved, Frank may try to urinate on the offender's foot. Yet, far from feeling...
...disparities in educational funding between districts in Massachusetts are large and growing," said Rosanne Bacon, president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association...
...sheen. Rifkin moves through an audience as if it were his private party, talking, interviewing, questioning and, occasionally but ever so kindly, embarrassing. He will perform for 30 minutes or eight hours, depending on the contract. His basic sermon is an attack on "the Boys," as he calls Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke and other architects of efficiency. And the Boys' great sin? To have created an atmosphere that allows scientists to impose untested new technologies on society without considering their broader implications. Says Rifkin: "Faster is not necessarily better...