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...richest political action committees, which have become a major force under the new rules, tend to be made up of such pro-G.O.P. elements as conservative businessmen and members of the Moral Majority and the New Right. But pro-Democratic groups are assembling to join the financing fray. And experts therefore predict even greater spending by such organizations in coming elections. That result is fine with Senator Harrison Schmitt of New Mexico, whose Americans for Change was a winner in the case. "It involves more people in the political process," he says...
...watch your favorite superstar punish the opposition, but nothing in sports matches the thrill of seeing an unknown talent enter the fray and lead his team to victory...
...turned Geneva into the world capital of niggling, for example) has a dreary reputation; so does the brute punch and counterpunch of labor bargaining-the two sides staring at one another across the table with reptile's eyes (their bladders nagging, their minds beginning to buzz and fray, the brain cells winking out like campfires). No Exit, a purgatory of silence and cultural incomprehension and stolid grievance, waiting for the other side to crack and start giving away points...
Radcliffe sent seven boats into the fray, none of which escaped without mishap--one boat hit a buoy at the start, one scraped a bridge on the way, while one steered clear of everything on the course, even the finish line. But in the end, the first boat finished third, closely tailing BU and Smith College throughout the two-and-a-half mile race...
JANET MALCOLM HANDLES these questions deftly. If, as Aaron Green contends, analysts are voyeurs "at the window watching what's going on in the bedroom, getting very excited, but not jumping into the fray," then Malcolm gives a solid boost to anyone who wants to be a meta-voyeur--someone to peep in on the bedroom and the first voyeur too. She falters only once, rambling through several pages of some sort of amateur Jungian explanation of Freud's motivations for giving a particular patient pseudonym. Except for this humorously obsessional bit of lay analysis, Malcolm has an intelligent authorial...