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...first, the Portuguese and Italian populations found politics "uncongenial;" local government was dominated in the first part of the century by the Irish, anyway. But as some Irish became more lace-curtain, othe ethnic groups began to become more involved. The success of latter day politicians like Joseph DeGuglielmo and Alfred E. Vellucci (the dean of Cambridge officialdom) prove that their aversion to government was only temporary...
...doesn't begin with the subject, his family, philosophy, or even a recitation of his favorite food (as did Janet Flanner in a 1936 profile of Adolph Hitler). Rather, Didion begins the piece with a word about her own recollection of Pike's church, and then characteristically proceeds to lace the narrative with what she calls elsewhere, "always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable 'I.'" "The greatest study of Mann is Mann" wrote Janet Flanner in a profile of the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, and likewise, we may note that an equivalent scheme of interests exists for Joan Didion...
...baton, so that during the slightest lull in conversations in years to come, I could say, "Ahem, during the Moscow Olympics in '80, I want you to know that ... etc., etc." I did some jogging to prepare, getting up to run when the sun came through the lace curtains of my room in the Hotel Ukraine. Summer sunrise is very early in these latitudes, 3:30 a.m. or so, which is a fine and relaxed time to feel a city and watch the building fronts glow as the dawn brightens...
...started out as a trickle from places like Agawam, Mass., Diamond Bar, Calif., and Yardley, Pa. In short order it became a flood from Medford Lakes, N.J., Irvington, N.Y., Arvada, Colo., and all across the nation. Pictures of rosy-cheeked little girls in lace dresses and little boys who looked as though they would much rather be fishing than squirming in a photographer's studio. It is as if hundreds of thousands of American parents all thought that the high point of 1981 would be the moment when they could say to their friends and neighbors...
...Though there are an estimated 3,200 EVs of one kind or another in use today in the U.S., a number of problems remain. Not the least is that the electric car's image is still an ancient sepia-tint photograph, a little mildewed and smelling of old lace. To hot young engineers in Detroit-where the action nowadays is in computerized fuel injection, stratified charge engines and other technologies for saving gasoline-electrics are a scientific diversion. Wall Street's auto-industry analysts reflect that mood. Says Maryann Keller, a vice president of Paine Webber: "We think...