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...meanwhile, came to the same conclusion. A sampling taken by Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg showed that Hillary's favorability ratings shot up 8 or 9 points right after the Republican Convention. All the Hillary bashing in the Astrodome, says Clinton's top campaign strategist, James Carville, "played to a decent advantage for us. The Republican Party in Houston made a collective fool of itself in attacking Hillary. People want to hear other things in an election campaign than a distorted 1974 scholarly article...
What made the bonanza possible was the U.S. dollar's plunge to its lowest level since World War II. But that same decline meant that while the Europeans frolicked, Americans abroad turned into window shoppers because the cost of everything had become so expensive. "A room in a decent hotel costs $450, and breakfast $35," fumed Robert McFadden, an Atlanta lawyer in London. "It would have been bad enough without the dollar's fall. Now it's just outrageous." Said Stephanie Bressler, a recent college graduate from Rhode Island who was touring Paris with friends: "Like we saw the Louvre...
Much Republican rhetoric posits a model of the family that is becoming rarer in reality. Almost all family values have to do with children, with how to make them happy and give them safe, decent lives. The real debate Americans should be having, says social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, concerns "what all adults would give up to secure a childhood of innocence and freedom." Every expert and practically every citizen agree that children are better off being raised in a family with two parents. For various reasons, that is less and less the model of American child rearing...
Biography usually quests for an existence that makes a difference. Dean's specialty was indifference. He did decent work in a few good movies (Some Came Running, Rio Bravo), but passed through others with slight effect, like the gentle baritone rumbling of a distressed stomach. His TV show was flash encircling stupor: the Golddigger chorines did their cooch; the cue-card girl had the script written on her bare midriff. And in the middle, so laid-back as to be supine, was Dino -- on the cutting edge of lumpen-American mediocrity...
...lyrics. Carpenter's literary allusions have run from Eudora Welty to old Geritol commercials, but the usual subject of her songs is love -- old love, careless love. So what else is new? The range of feelings she mines. At its best, love is hard work, like a decent blue-collar job ("Everything we got, we got the hard way"). At its worst, it's the rest of our lives...