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...Perhaps, though it is hard to know, he has matured and sobered. Certainly he has worked hard and competently as a Senator. Another part of the solution may be that we are more cynical about the conduct of politicians--Watergate, Koreagate, Wayne Hayes, Daniel Flood, Charles Diggs and their ilk have increased our awareness of the moral failings of our leaders. A few years of such revelations have weakened the shock value, however...
...grandmother in one of the two "heavy" songs of the act. Reed, as Marion the sex-starved, and Rody, as Laura the oh-so-cute, faithfully depict their personality types' stereotypical reactions to predictable situations. However, they never get much beyond fairly rote descriptions of what people of their ilk ought to look like. Reed's smiles and breezy invitations, the tedious explanations she makes to her friends the morning after amuse, but don't linger. Rody, whose voice weakens throughout the evening and who is burdened with fairly boring lines to start with, is not helped by her bland...
While we sprawl at the bar or in front of our TV sets mumbling "Kill 'em, kill 'em!" Hayes and his ilk reflect the maniacal gleam in our eyes. In 100 years -or days-what difference will it make who won any bowl game...
...unlike others of their ilk, these two learned the merits of flexibility--a little-recognized characteristic of the New Right. It is, of course, opportunism, not dogmatism, that gives the Right its bite, and Thurmond and Helms are specialists at tailoring their positions to rightwing fashions. Thurmond may perform octogenerian calisthetics, and Helms may run off his mouth in seemingly candid ways, but the iconoclasm is a put-on. Both are skilled professionals when it comes to pushing the panic buttons on issues like the Panama Canal, gun control and the ERA. And both know that while race...
Leftists are out there organizing communities, building coalitions, forming institutions to pool resources and provide the necessary staying power in the running battle with immortal corporations. We're not talking here about the ideological zealots--the Sparts and Trots and PLPers and ilk, who spend their time bickering and backstabbing over the various Internationals or how best to bring on the Revolution. Rather, the Cactus Leftists have involved themselves in presenting concrete alternatives to present policies. Their pragmatism, unfortunately, has often landed them in that sprawling massage parlor known as the Democratic Party: Instead of pushing radical alternatives, leftists...