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...magazine rarely receives this much attention for one issue, Sylvester said. "This is the liveliest thing that has happened around here is a long time...
With her style and presence, Geraldine Ferraro was by far the liveliest of the four nominees. Intense, good-humored, always listening (a rare trait in a politician), she surprised Americans with her fast-mouthed New Yorker's style. Still, although Ferraro was a first-class campaigner, it was not she but Walter Mondale who made the decision to put her on a national ticket...
...make powerful emotional connections with the objects on view. On that level, Volker Schlondorffs lightly heated rearrangement and compression of approximately one-fifteenth of Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past is altogether more beguiling than James Ivory's attenuated version of one of Henry James' liveliest long novels...
Despite such contrived attempts at editorial balance, the spectrum among columnists does seem more brightly colored on the right. The dwindling band of liberal columnists, the liveliest of whom is Mary McGrory, frequently write like glum recyclers of views no longer in vogue. Right-wingers are apt to be more ardent proselyters, some using the eruditely disdainful style of arguing they learned on Bill Buckley's National Review...
...debate focused on the issues of runoff primaries and immigration policy, and the candidates found little to disagree about. The liveliest moments came when Mondale and Hart rebuked Jackson for not repudiating Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader who made what sounded like a death threat against a black reporter. Mondale asserted that "what Farrakhan said was poison," and Hart wondered why the Muslim had not been subjected to criminal prosecution.* Jackson replied that he had "disassociated myself from the message but not from the messenger" and spoke in a preacher's tones of "forgiveness...