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...joint appearance with the head of the ticket for a picnic and press conference Friday in Mondale's home town of Elmore, Minn. (pop. 882), Ferraro got a mixed reception from a curious crowd. As anti-abortion pickets stood on the fringes of the group, Ferraro stated courageously, if more than a bit redundantly, "The choice has to be the choice of the woman facing the choice." That drew applause. But she went on to assert that "the President walks around calling himself a good Christian, but I don't for one minute believe it because the policies...
...appeared to suggest a large and complicated and real sense of shared pleasure in the nation and what it represents. They shot up over New York harbor and the Washington Monument and Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago and St. Louis and San Francisco and thousands of town squares and picnic grounds across the nation. The projectiles fired up and burst in the black summer night-magic bright sprays that looked like sudden sea anemones or supernovas, loud and martial with concussions, but fleeting and delicate. Eugene O'Neill once wrote about "the electrical display of God the Father...
...White House, Reagan hosted an outdoor fish fry attended by 800 Congressmen and seafood-industry officials. The fare included salmon, lobster, oysters and catfish. Conspicuous by his absence was House Speaker Tip O'Neill, whom White House aides had invited to join Reagan at the head picnic table. O'Neill's aides said the event had never been on the Speaker's schedule. Ventured an observer: "He had other fish...
...that happy and enthusiastic way of his; people can't help but respond positively." Agrees Rahm Emanuel, a Democratic political consultant in Illinois: "He shows a confidence just in the way he stands. He is tall in the saddle. Ronald Reagan is a ball game and a picnic on a weekend in July...
...Million Year Picnic (99 Mt. Auburn St.) is another such alternative universe, boasting stacks and stacks of comic books and comic book lore. You can also pick up comic books at Newbury Comics (36 John F. Kennedy St., in The Garage and at Superhero Universe (1105 Mass. Ave.), a few minutes' walk up Mass. Ave. towards Control Square, Superhero Universe also includes back issues of magazines like Playboy, National Lampoon, and Starlog, as well as all the special publications that herald new science fiction or the latest Lucas-Spielberg epic...