Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHERE ARE the 50.1 percent of the voters that Democrats can hope to capture in 1988? The West, except for California, is firmly in the Republican camp. Most of New England would vote Democratic even if the party candidate were Larry "Bud" Melman. Only Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut have a past history of voting against a reputable Democratic candidate--someone other that a minister's son from Minnesota...
...National Action Party, a conservative organization with strength in the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua and a growing constituency among the middle class. Traditionally, the P.A.N. has had two weaknesses: a failure to build grass-roots support and a tendency to recede into the shadows except at election time. The P.A.N.'s newly elected leader, Luis Alvarez, 67, is determined, however, to make his party a truly national...
...Veritas. That's truth. Which rhymes with Duluth. Which would have been letter D, except the Bulldogs didn't make the NCAA Tournament this year. The Crimson beat them, 4-2 and 4-1, in Minnesota...
Sweet, innocent Jonny (Philip Brittan) loves Cathy (Julie Scott), who seems as sweet and innocent as her boyfriend, except for some not too casually dropped hints about her suppressed sordid tendencies. The better-defined characters in Jonny and Cathy's large coterie include the disturbed Cider (played with scenerychewing gusto by David Buttaro), who carries a book of Nietzsche in one hand and a bottle in the other; Isaiah (Jason Cogan), who is a first year Harvard Law student and big-brother figure to Jonny; Mare (Jennifer Hodges), a tough whore; and Strawberry (Lena Strayhorn), a flirtatious ditz...
...longer a salesman but a bug. For this couple, each dawn is a reawakening to humiliation, each day a struggle to believe they can make an art as universal as Kafka's. They speak of their homeland with attempted distaste: "In Eastern Europe, nobody has a sincere smile except drunks and informers." They echo Poland's subjugation: they yearn to be Russian refugees, who they believe are more in fashion, and wish they had Russian goods to sell. But in the most poignant scene they feel compelled to telephone someone, anyone, back home, just to ask how things are. After...