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...their vulnerabilities. Bush, whose privileged background is alien to the life experience of most Americans, kept harping on the word values as he proclaimed that he was in tune with "the heartbeat of the country." For Dukakis, who often seems closer in spirit to Roger Rabbit than Rambo, his mantra was the adjective tough. Whether it was tackling the "tough choices" on domestic spending or the "tough and difficult decisions" on Pentagon weapons, Dukakis used the word to portray himself as possessing the macho fiber to sit in the Oval Office...
...terms of style, last month's carefully choreographed Democratic Convention borrowed a leaf from the Republicans. But the even more strictly scripted Republican gathering borrowed the very themes of the Democrats. Speaker after speaker invoked the "F" word from Mario Cuomo's 1984 Democratic keynote speech: family. Change, the mantra of Atlanta, was intoned just as frequently in New Orleans: Ronald Reagan used it 14 times in his farewell speech. Even compassion found its way into the Superdome, with George Bush talking about a "kinder and gentler nation...
Despite DeLillo's fictional explanations, Oswald remains a cipher. He is a confusion, even to himself. He reads and writes with pain and difficulty. He repeats to himself, as if it were a mantra, his suspicion that, "There is a world within the world." Everything, he believes, is about him; everything has meaning...
Invoking "unity" like a mantra, the Democrats rallied around their standardbearer. Dukakis and his team managed to keep the party's myriad special-interest groups content, yet not too well fed. As a media spectacle, the convention's only failing was so unusual for Democrats that they reveled in it: the floor show was rather dull and undramatic. The high points were the rousing speeches: Keynoter Ann Richards of Texas ridiculing George Bush for going after a "job he can't get appointed to"; Ted Kennedy cataloging the sins of the Reagan years; Jackson's resounding evocation of the personal...
...manager who was an old teammate. A few like Paciorek glided gracefully and gratefully into a broadcasting booth. But most went out cursing the darkening of the light. At 43, Carlton, dropped by five different teams in the past two years, defiantly repeats the old ballplayer's mantra, "I know I can still pitch. I know I still have the ability...