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...symbolic issues pale, however, compared with the heated debates about what can take place in the nation's public schools. This has always been the central battleground for church-state conflict in America. On the one hand, children are viewed as more impressionable and vulnerable to peer pressure than adults and so should be protected from anything resembling religious indoctrination...
...Maalox, here comes WILLIE HORTON II. Republican pollster Bill McInturff says George Bush's 1988 attack ads will pale beside the campaign commercials both parties will air next year. The voters are mad as hell, and just about every candidate seems eager to harness that anger -- or at least deflect it to the other guy. Besides, TV ads are too expensive to waste on reasoned debate over the economy and the homeless. The bipartisan conclusion: keep it short -- and mean. Dan Quayle has appointed himself the "pit bull" of Bush's campaign. G.O.P. insiders boast that if Mario Cuomo runs...
...artists he or she admires and learns from -- an internal homage that never ends. The problem is to subdue their authority, to bring their lessons into line with one's instincts. The artist who does this may be called mature. So with Marden, who with this show of huge, pale canvases covered with a loose tracery of inky line has managed at last to reconcile his inheritance as a late modern American painter -- chiefly, the work of Jackson Pollock -- with his interests in Oriental art. Marden has made intense and complicated images out of this dialogue. His internal argument about...
Without the immigration reform bill, Belgian-born beermaker Pierre Celis, 66, would probably never have launched his new brewery near Austin. By his estimate, the Celis Brewery should cost $7.5 million before the first pale beer starts to flow, a sum he says he would not have invested without the assurance that he could stay in the U.S. to supervise the business...
...really interesting characters were killed off in Gone with the Wind, except for two: Scarlett and Rhett. These two alone should have provided sufficient sparks for a sequel. But Ripley has managed to turn Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler into pale, insubstantial shadows...