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...level, success exacerbates it, making you more alone, arrogant, adventure-seeking or adulterous. You strive and strive and get more; then you wonder, "How would I ever know if I am loved independent of my success? If everything was gone?" In a very primitive way, they almost have to dive off the cliff to test it. The televangelists seemed to be begging for it all to end. There's a pressure keeping up the narcissistic facade and masking the depression. These are not happy people...
...economy shambles feebly into 1992. "They're going to be worried about their pocketbooks and not be so concerned about 21-gun salutes." Bush has the advantage of starting with a large credit line of goodwill among voters. "The economy will have to take a real nose-dive for him to lose the election," says Larry Sabato, a professor of political science at the University of Virginia. But he also contends that if Bush vetoes the unemployment bill, "the Democrats will have a very powerful symbol for how they have been trying to depict Bush -- as friend of the rich...
...rest of us, will summer ever be lighthearted again? Will no shirtless youth dive gallantly into the peonies to catch a Frisbee? Will no maiden swish barefoot across a dewy moonlit lawn? Eventually, yes, when poultry or medicine comes to the rescue. But not this tick-plagued summer, not just...
...first was a diving block of a shot followed by another dive to save a rebound attempt. The second was a stuff off of a point-blank shot fired by Parish, who shook her head in disbelief as she watched the ball ricochet back onto the playing field. Even Andy Moog would have been impressed...
...20th century works will also help flesh out the Met's skeletal early- Modernist collection. The Annenberg paintings include a very fine Georges Braque studio interior from 1939, and At the Lapin Agile, Picasso's self- portrait as Harlequin at the bar of a Montmartre dive. This souvenir of lost bohemia cost Annenberg $40.7 million at auction...