Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jackson who held its heart. There was a mood of almost religious rapture in the Omni Tuesday night as the preacher restated the riffs and rhapsodies that had carried him to within sight of the mountaintop. His praise for the Massachusetts Governor and his crowning metaphor of "common ground" was all that Dukakis could have hoped. But in ceding the spotlight, Dukakis became almost a spectator at his own coronation -- an image that he underlined when he said that watching his own nomination on television was a "little bit like a play...
Atlanta becomes a display of unprecedented harmony as the nominee and Jesse Jackson find common ground. How the concordat of cooperation was hammered out. -- Moments of high comedy at the convention, from TelePrompTer snafus to VIPS locked out of the Omni. -- Former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger critiques Dukakis' foreign policy...
Concerts on the Common...
...Boston Common, Tremont...
...bloody mary evening with Willie Nelson's annual visit to Boston's Concert on the Common at 6 p.m. Tickets are $15.50 and $17.50. Telephone 426-6666 and 787-8000 for details...