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...final, fatal moments, Home Front goes as berserk as Jeremy, waving a handgun of political didacticism at the audience, turning the American homestead into a Freudian minefield. Here Jeremy is less the middle class's guilty secret than, in his sister's words, "a terminal jerk"; and Dad must expose himself as a paranoiac patriarch whose home is his castle, moated by ignorance. For the two hours preceding this pirouette into psychodrama, Home Front is fiercely sympathetic to all of its characters. Beneath Mom's lyrical ditsiness and Dad's clumsy evasions are two frightened people who care, beyond words...
...broadcasters--a little more conciousness of the capacity to inflict injury, a little more concern about that... I think a recognition of the kind that Howard Simons just gave us if you do that to some private individual you may have to pay, instead of always having a knee-jerk reaction...
...members are still Democrats, as are two-thirds of the Governors and three-quarters of all other elected officials. Moreover, 43% of Americans are registered Democrats, including 5 million who enrolled just this year; only 30% are Republicans. "This kind of handwringing about the party is familiar and knee jerk," says Mondale Campaign Chairman James Johnson, refusing to see any general portents in Tuesday's terrible results. "It was a victory of personality far more than party." Clark Clifford, an astute party elder, is not fretting either. He recalls that four years after the Democratic rout...
...gloomy statistics should debunk the argument that Reagan's victory and demographic sweep--excepting, of course, the Blacks and the Jews--represents a general trend towards the Republicans or, in a singularly knee-jerk fit of wishful thinking b8 the Democrats, a mere mandate for the rosy wrinkly cheeks and gee-whiz smile of the President...
...philosophical mastery of Reagan's presidency has Included most knee-jerk liberal minds. The president's policies actually follow the legacies of the two most visionary leaders of this century: Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John I. Kennedy...