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...professorial calm have piqued the interest of a new generation of college students who were children when the former presidential candidate led his party against the Viet Nam War in 1972. To the mainstream of voters, however, he appears quaint, quixotic and too liberal. Reubin Askew remains a blur, with low name recognition even among recent residents of his home state, Florida. Only Jesse Jackson, irrepressible and sometimes outrageous, seems to be gaining converts in his long-shot crusade. But while Jackson has shown that a black can be a potent force in the primaries, he seems more...
...swing. But at every stop, the journalists are faced with a candidate's standard speech, the same jokes, the same badinage, and must try to turn them into news. As ABC Correspondent Brit Hume joshed to Mondale's press secretary Maxine Isaacs after a blur of indistinguishable events: "We regulars have had our excitement threshold lowered." Like the White House beat, to which it is often a steppingstone, campaign coverage is one of the most coveted and also one of the most confining of assignments. Reporters frequently join the candidate at dawn and may touch down in three...
...latest composer to blur the line is Gait MacDermot, 55, whose The Human Comedy is currently playing at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in Manhattan. Based on William Saroyan's 1943 novel, Comedy is a sprawling, episodic work that contains 84 separate musical numbers and lasts 2½ hours. MacDermot's plain, open-faced style, a melange of jazz, rock and gospel singing, is ideally suited to the sturdy values of familial love, courage and patriotism that Saroyan so sentimentally celebrated. Just as MacDermot's 1967 Hair resonated in the era of tribal-love rock...
...author's hard-won discovery of "diamonds in this filth" has given rise to another assumption that Frank would like to refute: "One often reads that, after a certain point, the distinction between right and wrong began to blur for Dostoevsky himself, and that he came to admire criminals for their 'strength' (as Stendhal had done earlier and Nietzsche was to do later)." Frank's narrative and evidence prove that Dostoevsky's long exile made him a fierce patriot and moralist, insistent that individual acts incur inescapable responsibility. It is only selected Western eyes that...
...already know) that Kate (Marsha Mason) is married to a man named Deeley (Anthony Hopkins), with whom Anna had some ambiguous contact. Anna has a taste for hot climates, hard angles and social dominance. Kate prefers the steam from her long baths, or a heavy rain to blur reality...