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Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, summoned us with trumpets. He peddled once again the old myths, offering himself as evidence that they were true. Reagan swept into office attacking his predecessor's "gloom and doom," telling us we could painlessly remake history and return to an earlier, idyllic time. That time, though, never existed. Reagan, like most Americans, was nurtured on the largesse of big government. He owes his careers in movies and politics to great corporation and manipulative political managers. His vision of "morning in America" was never more than our dream of a past that never...
...dense fog hung over Kilkenny's main street as a cold but patient crowd waited an hour for their candidate. When Fianna Fail Leader Charles Haughey, 61, finally appeared, neither damp nor gloom could muffle the cheers. Jumping from his car and springing into his campaign bus, the gray-haired Haughey apologized for his tardiness, then pledged, "It'll take more than fog to stop Fianna Fail this time around...
...flies that sometimes cake their lips and eyelids, can be disgusting. The Masai dwell in the world's most magnificent spaces. Yet to stoop at midday to enter one of their dung-walled huts to share a cup of tea is to be plunged immediately into an impenetrable, claustrophobic gloom, choked with smoke. A laser beam of sunlight fires through the darkness from a window the size of a Kenya five-shilling piece. It takes three minutes for the eyes to adjust and make out the dim outlines of one's friends sitting on short stools, knees near their chins...
...Tuesday, it must have been Paradise. Gloom and doom came into its own, donning its studded leather, ratting up its blue-black hair and condescending to strut its sinewy stuff in front of Peter Murphy, ex-lead singer of Britain's once most promising avant-garde band, Bauhaus...
...gloom overlooks an important bottom-line statistic: 1986 was among the safest ever for U.S. air travel. There was not a single fatality among the large American carriers even though they flew a record 6.2 million flights. That is a remarkable turnabout from the previous year, which set a worldwide high of 1,835 airline fatalities, 526 of them on U.S. carriers. For all of civil aviation, including airline, business and private flying, 1985 was dismal: 2,773 accidents that caused 1,231 deaths in the U.S. alone. For 1986 the number of U.S. accidents fell to an estimated...