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While his conventional rivals increasingly seemed tepid, technocratic and tedious, Jackson was fueled by that most elusive of political energy sources: true momentum. It was that quality, along with his popular vote lead in the primaries, that earned Jackson the sobriquet front runner. For the moment, the "rainbow coalition" was reality, not rhetoric, as white voters enlisted in the Jackson crusade to tear down racial barriers. Even though Dukakis handily won last week's Connecticut primary, 2 to 1, network exit polls gave Jackson roughly 20% of the white vote. This Tuesday's Wisconsin primary provides another tough test: Jackson...
While Jackson's large and varied outer circle of advisers is a racial rainbow, his four closest advisers -- at least for the moment -- are white, and three are Jewish. They include Jackson's campaign manager, Gerald Austin; his economics adviser, Carol O'Cleireacain; his policy adviser, Mark Steitz; and his all-purpose sounding board, Ann Lewis. The rationale for the cast of white faces is simple: Jackson's entourage, says a black adviser, "has done all the black politics they need...
Jesse Jackson's "rainbow coalition" once contained virtually a single color: black. But what a difference four years has made. An impressive aspect of Jackson's 1988 candidacy is his acceptance by many white voters. Last week white Jackson supporters around the country explained why they are joining in the chorus of "Win, Jesse...
...felt, the subject was "killed, cut to pieces and its form and surface disguised." Chagall did not want to go so far, but the flattening, reflection and rotation of cubist form gave his early paintings their special radiance and precision. In Paris Through the Window, 1913, we enter a rainbow world, all prismatic light and jingling crystalline triangles. It is full of emblems of stringent modernity: the Eiffel Tower, a parachutist, a train upside-down but still insouciantly chuffing. It owes a lot to his friend Robert Delaunay, who made abstractions of Paris windows. But the picture is plucked back...
...around the edges. It boasts wistful vistas and umber landscapes. Clouds stampede over the northern New Mexico terrain, where hillocks perch like adobe huts. The kiss of two fine brown faces is silhouetted by an orange sunset, flaring into sympathetic melodrama. Night falls, and there's a rope of rainbow in the sky; a frosted moon smiles behind a scrim of mist. It makes for quite a pretty show. Nature has rarely gone to the movies in starker, more glamorous clothes...