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...highest innovations in sports and politics, however, have been reached right here on the home soil of the U.S. in those quadrennial massmedia feeding frenzies. Whether it be through endless, meaningless commentary on unimportant happenings in the early stages of the Democratic primary, or in gloss, hype, and up-close-and-personal interviews with sports celebrities who weren't famous yesterday and won't be tomorrow, every four years the national media must strive after a task worthy of the Creator himself: the creation of something out of nothingness...
...mistakenly greeted in Russian by children and adults. But when the reply is "Nyet Lien- So, Mee" (Russian-Vietnamese pidgin for "Not Soviets, Americans"), Vietnamese, especially in the South, do happy double takes. This is in part due to an economy that once benefited mightily from a seemingly endless flow of dollars. "Before, there were many Americans and good tips," says one Saigon bartender who now makes the equivalent of $10 a month. "Now with the Lien-So, there is only 'Thanks...
Hart is right about one thing: dissatisfaction with the field is rampant among Democratic voters. Perhaps because all the other Democratic candidates have been diminished by endless TV debates and their uninspired campaigning, they seem to have surprisingly high unfavorable ratings. Dukakis and Paul Simon are the only two with relatively low negatives; Richard Gephardt, Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt now have unfavorable ratings that are higher than their favorable ones, a marked shift from previous polls. The survey showed that 41% wanted Mario Cuomo to get in the race and 31% wanted Bill Bradley...
...more exotic in The Mountains of Tibet (Harper & Row; $11.95). A woodcutter plans to travel the world, but he finds that he has grown old without ever leaving home. Yet when he dies, no tragedy attends his passing. A voice informs his spirit, "You may become part of the endless universe some call heaven, or you may live another life." He makes a delightful choice. Reincarnation would not seem a promising basis for a children's book, but Gerstein's fluid text and swirling, imaginative paintings are filled with light and reassurance. This is a work that will have many...
...swept, dying grass outside the window. "I will do anything for money," he confided. "But I must have money--huge, pointlessly huge amounts of it." I still grow nostalgic when I think of that afternoon. Someday, quite soon in fact, his eternal soul will be mine to torture for endless centuries above a pit of burning sulfer...