Word: behind
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...different. They're supposed to be the authentic versions of so many idealized sectors. Like Brigadoon, they reappear innocently every four years, and the impulse to believe in even a microcosmic place of innocence is powerful. When Ben Johnson ran out on the Games last week, he left behind a world of doubt. Indomitable athletes who continued about their business as though nothing extraordinary had happened only fed the doubt. Everything...
...oldest political law known to man: nothing like a good war to get the populace behind you. Maybe Reagan had on his mind the fact that there really is not a good old-fashioned war -- hot or cold -- around right now, and both government and politics seem at times bewildered without such a focus...
...Dukakis seems like the man who fell to earth: alien and uncomfortable. The Republicans have been effectively tarring the Governor with the liberal label and pressing all the local "hot buttons" -- gun control, the A.C.L.U., the Pledge of Allegiance, capital punishment. The latest polls show Dukakis falling 10 points behind...
...national mood is the best in four years, and Bush benefits. -- Behind the rosy economic numbers of the Reagan boom, middle- class Americans feel squeezed. Once again this election poses a critical question: Are you better off? -- A backlash for the A. C. L. U. -- On the road with Dan Quayle and Lloyd Bentsen, this week' s debaters. -- Shrinking the Underclass -- a campaign essay...
...first love. Everyone can recall the earliest flutter of the heart, even (or especially?) French Presidents. "I disappeared each day between the noon and evening meals . . . waiting long hours ((for her)) hidden behind a sand dune," writes Francois Mitterrand about the first time he was smitten, at 15. Mitterrand's poignant reminiscence of pursuing -- and failing to catch -- an unnamed girl during a family vacation in Belgium appears in Their Very First Time, which goes on sale in France this week. The volume includes the romantic flashbacks of 95 other notables, including generals, civil servants and a race-car driver...