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...close, McCartney can flash his ever ready charm at will. One minute he's open and sincere; the next he's closed, in automatic public relations mode. He's a clever lad, practical in business matters yet irreverent at heart. He's eager to put you at ease, but he gets miffed if you pry too closely. Just a few friends ever see the McCartney house, set in the forest in Sussex. His & Scottish estate is reachable only by foot across a bog or by four-wheel drive. Decades of Beatlemania haven't dehumanized him, but he has learned...
...could all of this alienation have been avoided? Basically, the members of this community need to trust each other a bit, to put ourselves in each other's shoes, to give communication a chance before downshifting into ballistic mode...
...hand--the "university" hand--you have the banality of Depeche Mode "People are people, so why should it be; that you and I should get along so awfully?" It's not so banal when it comes from a victim of racial injustice like Rodney King, who held a press conference to jump-start the national healing process. "Can't we all get along?" he asked...
...defense jumps in, ?"He was angry because there were many other cars passing him, Your Honor, and he felt he was being discriminated against because he was driving a BMW, He is a lawyer, and this is not his normal mode of behavior. We respectfully ask for a continuance without a finding for six months...
...George Bush is, so to speak, a less vivid absence than Reagan. He seems to be away a lot, either physically or morally. When he does come home to try to focus, Americans almost wish he would not: He has been going too often into his '50s flustery, dufus mode. Mario Cuomo is the only Democrat who looks and talks like a father, but he refused to accept the role, and that amounted to abandonment. He left the Democratic race to the sibling rivals (Clinton, Kerrey, Brown, Tsongas and so on), who have spent the season gouging one another...