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...fuss over a game of football? Ever since the big series started in 1875, men have tried to discover the special charm of the late November classic. Bright-eyed moralists, for instance, have gone into a happy glow at the sight of a real cleam, healthy American sportsmanship, 57,000 fans haven't paid $4.80 and upward to see a demonstration of the Golden Rule...
That's what has Republicans so flustered about the results of the election. Had Wofford been more of a moderate, or more of a politician, or had won by a smaller margin, there wouldn't be much fuss. But Wofford won big as a liberal and as a new-comer. People rejected the grand Republican machinery. People rejected Bush. With the economy still floundering, and critics becoming very vocal about Bush's neglect of domestic issues, this is not good time for Bush to have to deal with defeat...
...oldie remembers the exuberant optimism of art's embrace of the mass media that lay at the core of Pop: superficial, maybe, but promising a fresh world of demotic feeling. The younger visitor, whose baby sitter was a TV set, is more likely to wonder what the fuss was about. Haven't we always been denizens of the electronic empire -- fixated but skeptical, knowing how it cons us, yet unable to jump clear of the game of image manipulation...
...depends on precision detailing, will have to be especially vigilant about the quality of the Southern California craft: Taco Bell stuccowork won't do. But considering the budget and Meier's habitual perfectionism, it looks as if the Getty Center, when finished in 1996, will have justified all the fuss...
From all the fuss raised in New York this past winter, one might have thought that the Tribune Company, the parent organization of The Daily News, had tried to defraud the News workers of the last 10 cents of their lawful wages. Not really. Tribune and News executives wanted to end entirely illogical make-work rules which Hoge says were costing the paper millions of dollars a year, which it could ill afford...