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Dole, bracing himself for Bush to run negative ads about his wealth and his wife's trust fund, was blind-sided by a Kemp attack on Social Security. Some 120,000 elderly Iowans received an official-looking brown envelope marked IMPORTANT SOCIAL SECURITY INFORMATION ENCLOSED; in fact it contained Kemp...
Those changes are marginal, but in Iowa, Simon seems now to have a chance to move ahead. Among Democrats who say they will attend caucuses, he is second. However, when the sample is narrowed further to 213 Democrats who have attended a caucus in the past, Simon rises to the...
The latest triumph of our quality control is the case of Jeane Kirkpatrick. Last week the Republican Club, itself marginal, asked her to speak here at Harvard. Without hesitation she declined. Why? She made it clear that she wouldn't appreciate our instructive hymns and clever slogans during her speeches...
Moscow has been disinclined so far to follow Beijing's lead in returning the land to the peasants. Gorbachev has proposed a modified version of the Chinese plan that would lease marginal land from state and collective farm holdings to enterprising homesteaders and organize farm workers into family brigades. In...
The problem with Barfly is that it has a mission. This is to glorify the life of the Los Angeles beat poet Charles Bukowski, who wrote the semi-autobiographical script. Now Bukowski has a terrific literati-on-the-skids persona; more downwardly mobile than Kerouac or Burroughs, more degenerate than...