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Though the unedifying Williams-Richards race has set this year's standard for low-blow electioneering, questioning an opponent's honesty is a favorite tactic in states far more genteel. One reason: knocking a rival's character is easier -- and more fun -- than taking stands on complex issues that might alienate some voters. Another: it can differentiate a candidate from a foe in races where there are few significant policy disagreements. Says Bob Stein, a Rice University political scientist: "Who can explain school finance to voters in a TV ad or even a special program? The issues have become...
...volunteered to help at Children's Hospital, Denver's most chic charity. She sold cookies through Cookie Express, a mini-business she started with chum Nancy Davis Zarif, daughter of Denver oil tycoon Marvin Davis, who dominated society in the city. Neil played squash at the Denver Club. But genteel poverty amid rich friends pinched: with Neil's $30,000 Amoco salary and a relatively modest $210,000 home, the Bushes were not keeping pace with their new friends...
Like Madonna and Milli Vanilli, like Paula Abdul and, yes, even like Bart Simpson, the New Kids are a phenomenon whose unapologetic commerciality is part of their appeal. They are good movers and slick singers, and they drive their mostly preteen female fans into genteel frenzies. But their success can't be separated from their impact; it's part of the pop machine's new mystique. Is it real, or is it marketing...
Amid the run-down villas in East Berlin's once genteel Pankow district, the lovely stucco house at Am Iderfenngraben 23 looks decidedly out of place. The wrought-iron gate is freshly painted; the clay roof shingles gleam in the afternoon sun. Rudolf Musch, a construction engineer, has spent most of his savings renovating the 1920s home since his family moved in eleven years ago. But the Musches, who pay $92 a month in rent for their 1,658-sq.-ft. space, may soon find themselves on the street. Hilmar Schneider, the owner of the house, who left the East...
Once there was a single official pop culture: white, middle class, mid-cult, status quo. Pretty much everybody hummed the same tunes, saw the same movies, laughed at the same genteel jokes. That changed in the '50s with rock 'n' roll. The new music took rhythm, danger and sexuality from the underground black culture, cranked the volume up, electrified it and handed it to a brand new consumer group: white teenagers. The young connoisseurs of metal and raunch are similarly adrift from the entertainment that amuses or moves today's adults...