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Janet Gray Hayes, the first woman mayor of San Jose, Calif., points out a kind of reverse handicap for women in politics...
...seems to be the President's [chief difficulty, however, is the blandness of his personality and campaigning style, a serious handicap in a race with Reagan, who provokes an emotional reaction that probably wins him as many converts as do his views. Indeed, both candidates share similar basic philosophies, though Ford has more freedom to maneuver; he can broaden his appeal to moderates if he chooses. Says former Minnesota Governor Harold LeVander: "Reagan and Ford are like two peas in a pod. They may see themselves differently, but here in Minnesota, we see them both as rock-ribbed Republicans...
Could enter a different race altogether ... The favorite of conservative handicappers, who view him as a dream No. 2 entry on a '76 ticket. Others see such a ticket as potentially dangerous, certain to push some liberal Republicans onto a Democratic track ... Age a handicap...
...left the concert feeling completely invigorated. For that, I shall ask you to extend to him my congratulations and thanks. It appeared at the time that Yo-Yo Ma's performance was doubly impressive, first for this excellent solo and, second, because of his abilities in rising above the handicap of Mr. Neal Stulberg's horrid performance as conductor...
However, in those last years of the School of Paris, when French cultural chauvinism was quite as bloated as its American counterpart later became, Kupka labored under a distinct handicap: his obvious foreignness as an artist. His work looked, and in deed was, Northern rather than Mediterranean, full of theoretical obsessions, flights of mysticism, involuted decor, heavy symbolism and transcendental yearnings. There have been greater abstract artists than Kupka, but none so unmistakably Slavic. Later, when Kupka's eminence as a pioneer of abstract art was recognized-his first completely abstract pictures were done around 1910-11-the French...