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Geraldine Ferraro in her campaigning came across as cold and harsh, while the phony, frozen, politician-type smile of Walter Mondale turned us off. Mondale's continuing criticism of success seemed to indicate that we should be penalized for being successful and making our own way in life...
Noting the way cartoonists have lampooned Bush because of his erratic and occasionally quarrelsome performance this year, one top Republican strategist declared, "Bush is in danger of becoming a national joke." While that seems too harsh, it is clear that Bush's presidential stock has dropped. Some G.O.P. pros partly blame his staff...
...being undermined. But women seek their share of the desk and managerial jobs. Their increasing share reduces men's share. If, as in England, the permanent jobs lost are usually so-called men's jobs and the new openings are increasingly filled by women, there is a harsh edge to the future that women seek to shape. An irrational sex struggle over jobs, with which politics must cope, lies just beyond the horizon. In 1984 women unwittingly placed that matter on the agenda of 1988 and the years to follow...
...form, which for him equaled "sanity." After his favorite daughter and his wife died within a few years of each other, he could still produce poised, masterly poems that, as Pritchard poignantly notes, "bore out his spiritual persistence." They were Frost's way, if not of redeeming a harsh life, at least of transforming it and trying to make it inseparable from art. Ultimately, he confessed in another letter, he had only one anxiety: "Am I any good? That's what I'd like to know and all I need to know...
...accounts of the fall of Cambodia, and his native assistant, Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), the film does sacrifice the narrative coherence and the heroically moral resolutions old movies imposed on reality. Instead it offers the anguish decent men feel when they stand impotent before the high, harsh tides of history and the consequences of their own miscalculations...