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Sutton talks with an ancient, charming political lexicon, recalling the days when people voted for someone "because he was good to me." He is part of a generation that gravitated towards politics because of the Depression. "FDR forced politics upon us," he says. "He gave us jobs working for the government. The city was a good paymaster. You were guaranteed at least a pair of shoes, a suit, a shirt and tie and maybe three meals a day for your family...
...because Korean President Roh Tae Woo has dubbed this the "Era of the Ordinary Man." All the divisions - have grown increasingly blurred, moreover, as governments offer medal winners homes and lifetime incomes. Even the terms are slippery now: the word amateur has actually been excised from the official Olympic lexicon, while professionalism remains a dirty word among those who want flawless efficiency in their plans but not their hearts...
Reagan's ability to overfly troubles of his own making on a magic carpet woven of his own illusions remains a wonderment. He has helped banish bad news from the political lexicon. "There are no bitter pills among Ronald Reagan's jelly beans," explains a durable adviser. But eight years of smile-button politics leave a heavy burden for those who would follow, Democrat or Republican. No matter how intractable the problems, the American people have come to expect can-do homilies from their President. Any honest talk about sacrifice or yielding self-interest to the common interest...
...because there is a limit quite simply to what one can get away with. And if it is true that others got away with more or just as much and were never caught, that by no means implies that Fortas was a victim of ineptitude and not, in the lexicon of today, his own sleaze...
...drew high bids, including the cubist-inspired Composition, 1916. The second highest price of $ the sale, however, was fetched by a contemporary Soviet artist, Grisha Bruskin, 43, who has been harassed by the KGB for displaying his paintings to foreigners. An anonymous buyer paid $416,000 for his Fundamental Lexicon, a witty but inconsequential series of 32 panels depicting statues of ordinary citizens in heroic poses...