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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party. Most members of the Rainbow Coalition said they will back Dukakis in November, if only to stop George Bush from winning the White House. "We're for removing the Reagan cancer and the only scalpel we have at our disposal is the Democratic nominee," said Rainbow Coalition director Jack O'Dell...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Jackson Supporters Look to Future | 7/22/1988 | See Source »

...earthbound Westerners, give monologues that're nice and poetic-like, tho they don't realize it. It's sorta a poetry of restlessness, of loss, of foreboding. Only the characters don't know it, 'cause they're just stringin' words t'gether, fast as they can. Sorta like Jack Kerouac, drivin' thru Colorado like a prophet, n' sayin' t' himself, "Wow!" Sorta like what you'd say if you subconsciously knew someone was gonna sneak up behind you and dump a bucket of shit on your head, but there was nothin' you could do about...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...like the way they treated Jackson," said Jennie Jarmon, a cosmetologist in Houston. "I think he's a jack-ass for not picking Jackson. He had so much support behind me. He would have been a fine addition to the ticket...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Deep in the Heart of Texas | 7/15/1988 | See Source »

CORRESPONDENTS: John F. Stacks (Chief); B. William Mader, Jack E. White (Deputies) Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey National Political Correspondent: Laurence I. Barrett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masthead | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...America, we will produce a more generous art, less timid, less parochial. Hispanic Americans do not have a pure Latin American art to offer. Expect bastard themes. Expect winking ironies, comic conclusions. For Hispanics live on this side of the border, where Kraft manufactures Mexican-style Velveeta, and where Jack in the Box serves Fajita Pita. Expect marriage. We will change America even as we will be changed. We will disappear with you into a new miscegenation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Fear of Losing a Culture | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

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