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...addition, comic-book publishers have boosted sales with special issues that address social causes or depict historical figures and events. DC Comics, in a venture involving First Lady Nancy Reagan and IBM, has distributed issues of the popular Teen Titans in which the youthful superheroes promote drug awareness. Marvel, meanwhile, counts among its strongest sellers a biography of St. Francis of Assisi, which has sold 750,000 copies...
...make sure that the seat remains Republican. Nevada is Reagan country. White- haired, pink-cheeked Republican Contender Jim Santini, a former Democratic Congressman, has made good use of commercials that feature the President saying he needs Santini in the Senate. A shrewd, backslapping veteran pol, Santini has tried to depict his opponent, Democratic Congressman Harry Reid, as that Republican bogeyman, a "Tip O'Neill liberal." Reid depicts himself as a fighter against Big Business and the "Washington power brokers." A blond, soft-spoken Mormon, Reid has tried to peg Santini as a turncoat and a pawn of the Establishment...
...native land. This lenient policy has led more than 37,000 Sri Lankans to pour into the country since 1980. The flood has provoked racial conflicts and calls for stricter immigration laws; new arrivals meet rising hostility. At the same time, rumors spreading through Tamil communities in West Germany depict Canada as an asylum seeker's haven where refugees can find comfortable lives...
...would not be the old cellular stone hill town but the dream environment conjured up by Sant'Elia: all girders and concrete cliffs, with glass elevators zipping up the exterior walls. Its painting would try to encompass not just sight but noise, heat and smell; above all, it would depict movement. To fix this industrial mode in Italian (and European) culture, the pastoral mode had to be slaughtered. "Kill the moonlight!" one futurist manifesto exclaimed. Whatever lingered from the 1890s -- symbolism, impressionism, the cults of nuance and nostalgia, of the Arcadian countryside or the introverted personality -- was futurism's enemy...
Elizabeth Campbell Elliott, Bachrach's campaign manager, attributed the increase in popularity to a $100,000 media campaign that started in mid-May, after the other polls had already been taken. Television and radio spots depict the candidate as a determined underdog...