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...performance is scripted (very scripted, actually). It is also rehearsed (very rehearsed, actually), down to the last flamboyant gesture. He appears in an up-turned collar, flowing pink cravat and a suit of shimmering green. His hair is a delicate tint of mauve and he holds theatrical court from a cluster of antique-looking furniture. Subjects covered range from the excesses of Eva Peron to the finer, eccentric points of domestic science ("never sweep the place where you live, because after the first four years the dust doesn't get any worse...
With all the drama of a Whisk commercial (you know, "ring around the collar!"), two young women tell about their plans for the future. One wants to be President. The other intends to go back to college. Then a third actress, obviously pregnant, says she had planned to have a family--"but not this soon." As she sets the table, a voice-over tells viewers to call a toll-free number for information on contraceptives. Now that's hardly risque...
...internal divisions, as a Kirk asserted. But the greatest handicap the party has is its public image, and the reality that image reflects. The Democratic Party is seen as wed to and bogged down by special interest groups, out of touch with the Southern Whites and urban, ethnic blue-collar workers who used to form its core and lacking both decisive leadership and a viable program...
...Commission, the Democrats alienate some of their best activists (you know, the people who do that thankless phone bank stuff), lose some of their best contributors, and end up with even less of a program and fewer leaders than they had before. This certainly will not bring the blue-collar worker back...
...attractive bedroom community to Cambridge's growing population of affluent young professionals, they inevitably mean prohibitively expensive housing and probable displacement for many people who now live in the city. A Cambridge housing market without rent control not only would encroach on the city's various blue-collar neighborhoods--the most common fear of rent control activists--but would also exclude many moderate and middle income professionals. Moreover, the cost of displacing many Cambridge residents would be an end to the diverse and vibrant community that is this city's greatest asset...