Word: lincoln
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...chain of Bremer, Ray, Sirhan, Oswald?all tormented Americans driven to try to kill a public figure. It is a chain with links in U.S. life that reach all the way back to Richard Lawrence, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, and John Wilkes Booth, who did kill Abraham Lincoln, the first President to be assassinated. Inevitably, the question arises: Is there something wrong with American society? Why does America seem to have so many kooks willing to kill to exorcise some private demon...
Until the twin attempts on Ford, some analysts argued that only certain kinds of Presidents attracted assassins, unlocking the combination of mental imbalances that turns a misfit into a maniac. Leaders who were charismatic and activist like the Kennedy brothers, the Roosevelts, Jackson and Lincoln. And it is notable?and paradoxical?that there were no attempts on the lives of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, who were not well-liked as Presidents and came to arouse venomous passions in large parts of the population. Chicago Psychiatrist David Rothstein thinks that perhaps likable Presidents may be more vulnerable to attack, since...
...Nadelman's biographer, Lincoln Kirstein, observed, he "refined all coarseness into a subtle fixity of ostentation." He could give the postures of invitation and entertainment a detached grace almost worthy of an archaic kouros. The Whitney show reminds us how good minor...
...changing some items that were previously listed as standard equipment into extra-cost options. The auto companies are also holding down costs by minimizing changes in body design. Instead, they are offering new colors, splashy paint jobs and even more luxurious interiors on some models. Ford's new Lincoln Mark IV, for example, will be available in Carder, Bill Blass, Givenchy and Pucci "editions...
...Lincoln's designer cars typify one side of today's schizophrenic auto market. Recession or no, sales of big luxury cars are booming; Cadillac's $12,479 "international size" Seville helped carry total Cadillac sales to an alltime monthly record of 25,000 cars in July. But standard-sized cars are gathering dust on dealer lots, because the swing of more budget-conscious buyers to smaller, lighter models that are stingier on gas is developing more quickly than Detroit had expected. This year for the first time, small cars have captured more than 50% of the market...