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...Committed: These are affectations or adornments that are either (1) uncomfortable and unpleasant, and hence indicate a true believer/martyr/fashion slave, or (2) that have not quite yet achieved mass-market status, and hence are still daring enough to alter the course of the bearer's life...
...Natural: These affectations are not to be blamed on the bearer, because they are genetic. Like a mole just above your chin--which many forties starlets actually painted on--or platinum blonde or bright red hair that isn't bottled. Or a large chest that isn't silicone...
This analysis ignores the fact that many Americans prefer to have a choice between candidates. To annoint Sam Nunn, Bill Bradley or Lloyd Bentsen as the party's standard-bearer is tantamount to telling the electorate, "Well, sure, we're the Democratic Party, but we're the Democratic Party, but we're going to try to adopt the Republican Party's ideals, and try to convince you that we can do a better job at being conservative that they...
...Dukakis administration could do much to solve these problems. But if he is elected without the type of philosophical grounding Reagan presented in 1980, he lacks a popular mandate for his agenda. And if the standard-bearer of the major American political party most associated with liberalism refuses to affirm those values, they may cease to exist as a prominent political force...
...Stands had seen the 2,400 doves, the 1,500 people dancing the Flower Crown Dance, the 846 performers in masks, the one Burmese flag bearer and all the rest of the made-for-TV pageantry beamed, so it was said, to three in every five of the people in this world. But all of this was a world away from the simple reality of sitting in a $5 seat on a rainy day, in a half-deserted stadium, wrestling with a box of Curry Noodles (the box won in the opening round). Beside him, three local zanies were wearing...