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...maybe the Woman of the Future. For Nichols' film is also as modern as the 21st century challenge that faces America. How will the working class be educated to survive and thrive in the computer age? This intoxicating movie has an answer: let her strut her outer-borough wisdom from Wall Street to the Pacific Rim. Watch her fatten portfolios as she melts hearts. With working girls like Tess, America ain't down yet. -- Richard Corliss...
Bush, campaigning in a state once considered a stronghold for Dukakis, traveled to the New York City borough of Queens to receive police endorsements and to campaign in a Democratic neighborhood...
...have himself introduced by all five of his children. Jesse Jackson Jr. is a member of the Democratic National Committee. That is no worse than Maureen Reagan being co- chair of the Republican National Committee. And neither is as offensive to democratic values as the Kennedy family's pocket borough of Massachusetts, where a congressional seat may be thoughtfully lent out until a Kennedy is old enough to claim it. ("When Jack became President," writes Tip O'Neill, "his Senate seat was kept warm by Ben Smith, Jack's old Harvard roommate" until "Teddy turned thirty," the minimum...
...most respects a splendid young fellow: nice looking, well-spoken, equable and compassionate in spirit. His only deficiency is a certain literalness when it comes to geography: he thinks the logical place to look for a future queen is a place named Queens. You know -- the New York City borough you try to drive through without stopping on the way into Manhattan from the airport...
...Brawley case has got nowhere. Attorney General Abrams declared at week's end that unless the Brawleys turn about and tell what they know, the "investigation is not going to succeed." Given the prospect of thwarted justice, it was hard to argue with the view expressed by Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, who also is black, about Glenda Brawley's new status as a fugitive. "I don't think any purpose would be served by locking up the mother," he said. "The rule of law is important, but this is a unique and strange situation...