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...asserted in 1972 that "the ship of integration is going down. It's not our ship." By speaking in the first-person plural, Buchanan is exhibiting a detachment from black citizens. The cause, one for which the fight continues, is not his. This is a frightening fact--that the push for racial integration is not a goal of a political leader. That this unconstitutional mindframe can appeal to a portion of the populace bears testimony to the erosion of America's social values. Where are the counter-attacks to his monstrous assertions...

Author: By Erica S. Schacter, PERSPECTIVES | Title: A Demagogue Is Born | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

...Arizona, the stakes are different. Despite a surprising win in Delaware on Saturday, Forbes desperately needs a win to revive his flagging campaign. Buchanan, meanwhile, hopes a win in Arizona will make his case that he is a legitimate candidate and not someone who is just trying to push the Republican Party to the right. The looser may be Alexander, who Tuesday resigned himself losses in Arizona and the Dakotas that leave him finishing once again well out of first place in a primary. "I'm a patient man," he said, and suggested he would concentrate on looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Two Out of Three | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

...slightly creepy photos of herself in various guises, will now flex those creepy muscles as director of an unnamed independent horror movie. "She has great command of the mise-en-scene," says producer Christine Vachon, who worked with photographer Larry Clark on Kids. "She just needed a little push...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 26, 1996 | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Sure, someday when I can't seem to get the sentences unsnarled, I might push back from my desk and say wearily, "The writing process is a mass of protoplasm containing a nucleus surrounded by a flexible outer membrane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIMARY FIXATION | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

TUSCON, ARIZONA: An increasingly confident Pat Buchanan continued his push for a win in Tuesday's Arizona primary. At stake for Buchanan is not only the 39 delegates in the state's winner-take-all event but also vitally needed momentum. "I'm beginning to think I'm going all the way," he said Monday. "A victory in Arizona I think would give us such propulsion it would be very, very difficult to stop us from winning the nomination." On the eve of the vote, most polls show Buchanan locked in a tight race with Bob Dole and Steve Forbes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arizona Vote | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

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