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...Washington, where rhetoric and reality constantly collide, the "stealth budget" will enable the President to continue to spout his well- worn 1988 campaign bromide -- "Read my lips, no new taxes." How can he get away with it? Because that bugaboo of the Republican right, the income tax, was left untouched. Instead, Administration and congressional budgeteers hiked levies on oil and chemicals, advanced the collection dates for various taxes, and increased fees on such items as tickets for international air travel and cruises. Except for a leap in the amount of personal income subject to Social Security taxes from...
...environment, for fast-talking wheeling and dealing, and for the drug trafficking among offshoots of Los Angeles gangs in the blue-collar districts of Tacoma. California has also become a political buzz word. "Any candidate can get a rise out of his audience just by mentioning the bugaboo of 'Los Angelization,' " says Doug Jewett, one of the contenders in this week's mayoral election. One successful antigrowth candidate used the slogan "If You Don't Want King County to Become Another California, Vote for Brian Derdowski...
...fact, the Monthly often scolds the rest of journalism about unsound practices, with access being a particular bugaboo. It dutifully acknowledged the errors two months later -- after others had repeated them. Editor Charles Peters now says his writers usually do check with people they criticize. "The time you don't do it," he adds, "is when everyone knows what the other guy would say. Even then, it should be done...
...City demonstrated, American elections all too often remain a matter of black and white. Virginia, once a bastion of segregation, seems an unlikely setting for a brand of biracial coalition that could break the depressing pattern of color-bound voting. Yet if Doug Wilder wins the governorship, the old bugaboo of racial politics will have been dealt a severe blow...
...eats into the face." Updike uneasily recalls his much publicized refusal, during the 1960s, to oppose U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, a stance that left him odd man out among friends, fellow authors and members of his children's generation: "Authority to these young people was Amerika, a bloodstained bugaboo to be crushed at any cost. To me, authority was the Shillington High School faculty, my father and his kindly and friendly, rather wan and punctilious colleagues, with whose problems and perspective I had had every opportunity to empathize...