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Once the Congress, the courts, the huge media complex become engaged in examining an unhappy event like this one, the American system demands a conclusion. The wheels grind to the end. Only purity survives, and sometimes not even that...
...bard of the Beat Generation can still grind startling, creative, and provocative images from the grist mill of his modern America. A four-line poem entitled "Suprise Mind" reads...
...session. Allowing temporary legal residents to remain in the country until Congress reconsiders their status hurts no one--no one, that is, except nativists. In enforcing what it sees as the letter of the law, the INS contemptuously flouts its spirit and demonstrates that it has an ax to grind...
...will have any power then, there will be no patronage to dispense from here or from Washington. The field will be wide open for people who love the game of politics because they love to win and think they can govern, not because they have an ideological axe to grind...
Above the waist, merengue action has the approximate agility and combustibility of Mister Rogers doing a Maypole dance. Partners move sideways, taking a long step and hauling the other foot behind. The real fire is down below. Partners can press hips close enough to grind grain, dance a few steps, drift away from each other, then, as the music quickens, come together again. Says Oscar Herrera, 34, a Salvadoran immigrant who directs a San Francisco social-service agency: "The merengue grabs you so much that even if you get tired and soaked in sweat, you can't stop dancing...