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...sure bets to win a gold. Instead, to everyone's astonishment, he scotched his first three attempts, ignominiously booting himself from the competition. This was more than simply the single biggest track-and- field failure of the entire Olympics; it was also a rent in the cosmic fabric, a mishap as inconceivable as A.J. Foyt's pulling his car out of the garage and backing over the family cat. The fans in Barcelona sat in shocked silence, then proceeded to whistle him out of the stadium--Europe's equivalent of a Bronx cheer. The debacle was so startling that some...
...remember the first shirt I acquired in college. The black ink on white fabric design that commemorated a week of sweating and cutting weeds in an overgrown lot in Roxbury gave an auspicious start to my collection...
Much as the Depression bequeathed to our parents a reflexive economic insecurity, so too the late 1960s left many of us with a permanent sense of how violently our country's social fabric could unravel under stress. Though with time the healing would come, it has never quite wiped away the memory of our classmates' blood on the steps of University Hall...
...sort of tribal-rock look. The clothes are cut tight to the body, not to say skimpy. Minis are micro, midriffs bare. Pinpricked Airtex, borrowed from athletes' uniforms, reigns here. Perhaps the chicest outfit in the group is a plain black vinyl shift. The very latest fashion fabric, polyester treated to appear holographic, appears in pretty iridescent tops. Daphne Rubin-Vega, who plays Mimi in the show and models the clothes here, gets to the point when she says, "They're really bohemian." Well, boho goes uptown...
Economic Policy Review editor and Heritage Foundation member Adam Myerson was somewhat more optimistic about the current state of citizen involvement. Myerson credited "social entrepreneurs" with the mending of "America's social fabric...