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...anything to do with the exchange of goods and services”? It will be unfortunate if Upside Down is only read by those who already look beyond the borders of their experiences, for Eduardo Galeano is trying to take the blinders from the eyes of a broader public, one whose wits have been addled by entertainment masquerading as news. Subtitled “a primer for the looking-glass world,” it is as redundant to the living-wage activist as The Stranger is to the inmate on death row; comforting, perhaps, but not terribly informative...
...West 139th Street a path points toward this looking-glass world. It leads first past the West Harlem community garden, where Julio Benitez and Stephen Gallagher work the flower beds and watch for mockingbirds. Of the new park Gallagher says, "We're negotiating with the state right now. If they're going to have trees and grass up there, they could let us grow some vegetables." He isn't making any predictions yet about the impact of the park, though he's quite pleased with this season's chard. Just ahead, a road crew plants pilings...
...loser, it's Dukakis," theorizes Political Consultant Ralph Mongeluzo. "When Hart dropped out, a big part of his support went to Dukakis. Now he'll have a shot at getting it back." Early polls show Hart vaulting into second place behind Dukakis in New Hampshire. Yet in the looking-glass world of political expectations, Hart's presence may actually help Dukakis if the Governor can still win in New Hampshire. Such a victory would have been discounted if Dukakis had faced only the pre-existing weak field. But if he knocks off Hart, Dukakis would begin to look more like...
Central America, it sometimes seems, is caught in a looking-glass war. Covert operations become overt, rebels in one country get aid so that rebels in another get squeezed. Liberals look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam, while conservatives look at the map and see pawns in a game of Great Power chess. In the din of charge and countercharge, moral and practical issues sometimes become tangled and blurred. Here are answers to some basic questions...
Disney's $3,900,000 Technicolored version draws on both Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, skips many of Alice's adventures, reshuffles others and caricatures most of its cast of 31 Carroll characters until they look more like Disney creations than the original Sir John Tenniel drawings that inspired them. Only the most unyielding Alice cultists would begrudge Disney an adapter's liberties, even when he feels forced to omit some favorite passages and characters, e.g., the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty. But Disney's liberties betray the tone and spirit of the original. The mock...