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...named Doomsday will murder the Man of Steel. The state of Pennsylvania touts itself as a place for "multiple personalities" to suggest it has much to offer tourists. A character on Roseanne argues that only "murderers, psychos and schizos" can beat a lie-detector test. On election eve, Ross Perot tells a cheering crowd, "We're all crazy again now! We got buses lined up outside to take you back to the insane asylum...
When Ross Perot began his presidential campaign last year, he promised to use technology as an engine of radical democratization. The citizens of the Texas billionane's cybersepublic Would communicate their opinions to the president via PC and modem. The case with which bailots could be case and counted would render representative government in its present form obsolute and the Washington power slite would wither perot's plan would transform the landscape of American politics...
...never know how perot's "electronic town halls" would have changed politics, but the Houghton exhibit indicates that digital democracy has served typography well. Such exhibits as "About face" can ensure that consumers and designers use democracy's energies properly, constumers will learn that the history of type began long before Apple began bundling bitmaps of "Times," "Helvetica" and "Palatine" with Macintosh will be able contract the wild modern early periods with the stodgy lay in between...
...network last summer, talking to groups of "ordinary" young Americans. And the attention to youth seemed to pay off: According to exit polls, 46 percent of voters aged 18 to 24 cast their ballots for Clinton, compared to 32 percent for former President Bush and 21 percent for Ross Perot. This was a stark reversal of 1980, when young voters deserted the Democrats en masse for Ronald Reagan...
...came with an eye on the future. Clinton was the first candidate to win the White House without a majority of the popular vote since Richard M. Nixon in 1968. Like Nixon, Clinton is hyper-conscious about building a coalition for the future. He has wooed followers of Ross Perot, stocking his economic team with deficit hawks, and discovering the magic word sacrifice...