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Instant patients start out peppy and joking. "But by the end of a few hours, most say, 'I'm exhausted,' " observes nurse Linda Bryant at Hunterdon. Schmitt discovered that "a major accomplishment was doing up my collar." And, to his surprise, "I wound up resenting physicians who didn't realize how much medication would cost and how hard it was to go and pick it up." Weiss also had an epiphany: "I realized how little I talk to patients. I might ask them about chest pains but not 'Can you get dressed, eat O.K., take your medicine?' " At Long Beach...
Jordan benefited from a coalition of blue-collar and rich voters peeved that under Agnos the city seemed more interested in declaring itself a sanctuary for Desert Storm war resisters than in keeping Market Street clean. Long delays in repairing freeways damaged in the 1989 earthquake, while not attributable to Agnos, did not help his image. Meanwhile, increasingly militant posturing by activist gays -- a key group of Agnos supporters -- sent more conventional voters scurrying to Jordan's camp. The final blows for Agnos were a sputtering economy and fewer dollars to spend on costly social programs such as caring...
...Duke's campaign was not farfetched. He won a place in the runoff by defeating incumbent Republican Buddy Roemer, a Harvard-educated reformer whose imperious manner doomed him to a single term. Duke won blue-collar voters, largely rural, young and male. But he also made inroads into the middle class, capturing conservatives from both parties. If the election had been held just after the primary, Duke would have...
...California recently, I picked up a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle and read about people attending a funeral in pinks and turquoises and singing along to Bette Midler ("Dress for a Brazilian party!" the invitation -- from the deceased -- read); about a missing cat identifiable by "a rhinestone collar w/name and electronic cat door opener"; about women from Los Angeles hiring migrant workers to wait in line for them to buy watches shaped like cucumbers or bacon and eggs. On Hollywood Boulevard I saw a HISTORIC LANDMARK sign outside the site of "The First Custom T-Shirt Shop in California...
Some white Californians, meanwhile, welcome the new arrivals. In their 49 years on Clinton Avenue in Richmond, a blue-collar refinery center on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay, Gladys Parks, 76, and her husband Bruce, 81, have seen the city go from white to black, then to Hispanic and Asian, and finally to mixed-white again on the gentrifying edge of the city. Bruce, a Stockton-born "prune picker," as native Californians are called, recalls having real misgivings when the "coloreds" first came to town during World War II. Today he and Gladys call the black family next...