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Dukakis must do well in Michigan to prove, finally, that he can attract the Democrats' core blue-collar constituency. He has the endorsement of former U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser and a bulging wallet, but still no ability to generate much emotional attachment. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young's halfhearted quasi-endorsement is likely to hurt the Massachusetts Governor as much as help him. Says State Democratic Committee Member Morley Winograd: "It won't get him any white votes, in fact it could cost him white votes in the Detroit suburbs, and the black vote will go to Jesse...
...true: when Superman moved to television, where George Reeves first donned the cape in 1953, his bulging muscles were made of foam rubber. No matter. There are plenty of viewers who can still recite, at any mention of Reeves in his foam-rubber muscles, a quasi-liturgical text: ". . . Strange visitor from another planet, who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman! Who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel with his bare hands, and . . . fights a never-ending battle for truth, justice and the American...
Gorbachev's anticorruption drive, moreover, tends to hit hardest in those republics whose quasi-feudal party leadership has traditionally operated on a basis of bribery, kickbacks and influence peddling. Such leaders, in turn, may seek to whip up nationalist resentments against Moscow to protect their own positions...
...regional proximity but to the hardscrabble heritage he shares with many of them. It was a matter of class, of culture, of sects, of tribes. The phrase revealed the bitter resentments against people like George Bush that seem to reverberate in Dole's dark inner soul. Bush, the quasi-New Englander, tried to usurp the "I'm one of you" line when his campaign moved to New Hampshire. But from his mouth it sounded a bit silly; one thing Bush is not, no matter how many forklift trucks he is photographed driving, is a man of the people...
...least the buildings planned for the Times Square area are eclectic. Two are glassy towers designed by late-modernist architectural stars -- one a rather awkward quasi-spiral by Kevin Roche, the other a larger, more elegant tower by Charles Gwathmey. Both, although not their architects' best work, look to be at least as good as the run of new commercial buildings in Manhattan...