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Such is the sour legacy of 1988, an election year that was to substance what cold pizza is to a balanced breakfast. Think of the words and phrases that 18 months of nonstop electioneering have underlined in the political lexicon: Monkey Business, the character issue, attack videos, plagiarism, wimp, handlers, sound bites, flag factories, tank ride, negative spots, the A.C.L.U., Willie Horton and likability. Match them with all the pressing national concerns that were never seriously discussed: from the Japanese economic challenge to the plight of the underclass. As the voters trudge off to the polls with all the enthusiasm...
...still lives in his native upstate New York, where he keeps his mother company in her house. When he learns that his older brother William, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, is dying of cancer in Hawaii, Exley hops a plane along with "the old lady," and another nonstop monologue is under...
Television, too, can easily turn into a nonstop highlight film. It misses life around the edges, where life is lived most colorfully. TV intensifies some moments by ignoring others. In the first heat of the 3,000-meter steeplechase last week, Davendra Singh of Fiji was quickly out of the picture. Quite literally. Within a few laps, Singh was already so far behind the pack that the camera didn't even follow him. Yet still he kept on going. One could imagine the view from his end: the dispiriting sight of distant bodies receding as he tried to catch them...
...world's most popular simulator, Disneyland's Star Tours, poses no such hazards. As many as 27,000 people a day wait between 45 minutes and two hours for a chance to take a 4 1/2-minute imaginary excursion to the Moon of Endor. They are rewarded with a nonstop thrill ride in which a mock spaceship climbs, banks and even reaches the speed of light -- all with white-knuckle realism. "This is easily the most popular ride," says Bob Roth, manager of publicity for the park. "On a roller coaster, you have the lingering feeling that...
...what he likes best: traveling around the country, convening task forces, talking with Governors and mayors, promoting regional economic development." Longtime advisers predict that Dukakis would chafe at the constraints of life in the White House and try to break out of the splendid isolation of the presidency through nonstop travel. Says DeVillars: "There'll be plenty of work for advance men in a Dukakis presidency...