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...talk of the convention concerned the maudlin tone of the convention speeches. "This isn't a convention," went a common refrain, "it's Queen for a Day." There's no doubt that this year Democrats gave us not only a balloon drop and a confetti drop but a treacle drip of steadily increasing dosage as well. I found myself cheerfully ascending to high dudgeon--until it hit me that we in the television business bear much of the blame for this corruption of public speech...
This may help explain why Clinton, despite what Dole calls the "drip, drip, drip" of Whitewater, is still about 15 points ahead in most polls. Voters are making sophisticated, even jaded judgments in favor of Clinton. Half believe the President is misleading them about Whitewater and Filegate, but many don't much care. More than half of Americans approve of Clinton's job performance. Unless he is directly implicated in wrongdoing, voters seem ready to give him the benefit of the doubt. They may not be fully comfortable with him so much as impressed by his ability to stay afloat...
...still drives his Ford pickup to work, refuses to wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told a town-hall gathering in April--as his idol, Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. And as a devout libertarian conservative, the House majority leader steers by strong convictions--against farm subsidies, in favor of opening...
...thing, they're less likely to enjoy the benefits of long-term female companionship. A generation or so ago, men sought out the company of women, if only to get their laundry done and hot meals served on time. But with the advent of the drip-dry shirt and the frozen breakfast burrito, it became possible for any fellow, no matter how domestically challenged, to get out of the house on his own. And they have, in droves. The age of first marriage for men has shot up to almost 27, and after divorce it is the man who gets...
...heart of Rohinton Mistry's monumental new novel lie questions as essential as breathing. How can hope and dignity be maintained in the face of daily atrocity? And atrocity that comes not with the sudden violence of a Holocaust but in a steady, relentless drip-drip-drip of degradation and disappointment. What is the price of forbearance in the challenging of injustice, and when does stoicism turn into fatalism? Cities like Bombay are routinely given tags like "City of Hope" or "City of Dreadful Night"; Mistry digs beneath the comfort of such abstractions to a level of complexity where murderers...