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...back each time for the presidential debates and, says Small, "they stayed until the end-there was no audience tail-off." Obviously they wanted to know, good or bad. Harris insists that, as never before in political history, the smiles, the thoughts, bad words, verbal goofs have penetrated to darkest ghetto and most remote hamlet...
...group who become therapy junkies." Others insist that today's narcissism is far broader, a cultural phenomenon growing out of two seemingly competing features of the 1960s and 1970s, rising personal affluence and deepening individual power lessness. The late Marxist sociologist Theodor Adorno took what is probably the darkest view. Capitalism, he maintained, causes such alienation that "narcissistic merger" of the disaffected with charismatic fascist leaders is becoming more likely. Other critics argue that Americans are turning inward because of a sense that individuals cannot have important social or political impact. Says former Yippee Leader Jerry Rubin...
...hideout. The place even has a reassuringly classy name-the Ritz. Gaetano is from Cleveland, so he can be forgiven his naiveté about the Manhattan demimonde. He suspects all is not well, however, when the Ritz turns out to be an elaborate bathhouse patronized exclusively by males. His darkest fears are confirmed when some of the patrons start winking at him, and one, Claude Perkins, launches repeated attacks from behind doorways and across corridors. Claude (Paul B. Price) is a "chubby chaser," and the ring of flesh hanging over Gaetano's belt is so thick he seems...
...agreement with the 24 banks was delayed by Haack's darkest day at Lockheed, when Canada abruptly pulled out of a $1.06 billion order for 18 Orion antisubmarine patrol aircraft. "I tell you," says Haack, "you haven't known heartbreak until a billion-dollar deal is canceled on you on two minutes' notice." The order collapsed over a billion-dollar misunderstanding: Ottawa and Lockheed each thought the other was to be responsible for financing early stages of the contract. But Lockheed may still not have lost the Canadian business: Haack has submitted a new proposal stretching...
...delay of their democratic aspirations, the Latin American people may lose confidence in the methods and solutions of liberal democracies and become more and more attracted to armed struggle, as the growing popularity of leftist groups among the Argentine working class indicates. Latin America may overcome one of the darkest periods in its history only after a long and bloody struggle. The United States will then look back on the democratic alternative presented by Allende and lament that it didn't support it when it still had a chance...