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When New York City voters go to the polls next week, they will consider the same two major candidates they did four years ago: David Dinkins and Rudolph Giuliani. But this time the slate seems so disappointing to many New Yorkers that they would probably prefer to choose "none of the above." The reason: like the rest of urban America, the city has changed...
Both candidates pay lip service to this new agenda. Giuliani, who made his reputation as a gang-busting U.S. Attorney during the Reagan Administration, talks up his plans to crack down on crooks, privatize government services and lower taxes. Such proposals, however, aren't markedly different from those offered by Dinkins, who trumpets a two-year decline in the city's crime rate, an improvement in some city services like the extension of library hours, and his record of balancing the budget every year since taking office...
Rather than give more details about future plans, however, the candidates have descended into potshots. One of Giuliani's ads seeks to portray the mayor as weak and ineffectual by reciting a list of civic disturbances during Dinkins' term, including a 1991 melee between blacks and Jews. Meanwhile, the Dinkins campaign has ridiculed the Republican challenger's proposal to set a 90-day limit on stays in homeless shelters, calling it an example of Giuliani's coldness and lack of compassion. At least three scheduled debates have been canceled because the candidates couldn't agree on the rules. The attacks...
Voters are disgusted. Polls show Dinkins and Giuliani locked in a statistical dead heat; the only movement is the rising disapproval ratings for both of them. Neither candidate is getting across a message that he can be an urban Mr. Fixit. Dinkins comes off as a courtly but unimaginative bureaucrat with a taste for fussy clothes and fancy ceremonies. Giuliani has a reputation as a humorless autocrat with an abrasive management style that involves shooting first and asking questions later...
...language, though he still works up a good head of rhetorical steam, and he has moderated his enthusiasm for phantasmagoric set pieces. He has also picked themes -- war and loss, youth and age -- that suit a large, elaborate style. His hero is a 74-year-old Italian, Alessandro Giuliani, during World War I a soldier who fought the Austrians and, in 1964, the novel's present time, a professor of aesthetics. Alessandro meets Nicolo, a 17-year-old illiterate factory apprentice, when they both miss a weekend bus from Rome to the hill towns. On a whim, they decide...