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No non-Hollywood adults could hope to duplicate the Reagans' portrayal of adolescent infatuation. In any event, polls indicate that it is a sense of family that voters are seeking, not romance. But enduring love, the kind that survives the unpaid orthodontist bill and the lawn grown weedy, cannot be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Candidates' Love Match | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

In the age of imagery, however, Babbitt has problems selling. With a bobbing and twitching face that folds all over itself, Babbitt seems as comfortable on television as a moose being pelted with buckshot. On the stump he is earnestly plodding and uncharismatic. Nor is his product an easy sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait, Bruce Babbitt: Standing Up For Substance | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

1 cf. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968). On occasion, Huntington has extended this argument to the United States, suggesting that a little less "excess of democracy" would cure the distemper of the American body politic. Huntington, "The United States," in Michael Crozier, Samuel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Footnotes | 11/5/1987 | See Source »

The two-act play consists of a series of overlapping vignettes, each of which takes place in a different dining room with a new set of WASP inhabitants. In smooth succession, Gurney presents all sorts of table settings: a kindergarten birthday bash complete with ice cream, a tense mother-daughter...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Food for Thought | 10/30/1987 | See Source »

LAST WEEK Harvard's governing corporation apparently decided that its November rejection of a request for an open meeting signed by 1100 students and 23 student groups wasn't politic. The seven-man body announced that it would like very much to meet with students--provided there were no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Meeting | 2/28/1987 | See Source »

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