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...When Almodovar came here from L.A., she entered a fight over the town's soul. On one side are residents of the flats, the suburban realm of McDonald's and Staples. Susan Kaluza, 41, lives there with her husband, three children, and bunnies that run freely on her immaculate green lawn. "I didn't want Butte to be identified with the sex workers of the U.S.," says Kaluza, spokeswoman for the Concerned Citizens. "What if our children see the Dumas and say, 'O.K., this seems like a good career...
...does Gore fare badly with male voters? Why should the male verdict on Gore be so much harsher than the female? We enter a subjective realm - intuitive and irrational. One might grope around in pop anthropology and try out theories. For example: Men, habituated to teaming up in forms of disciplined aggression and governance (hunting, war, politics), possess well-developed, wary instincts about other men, including their qualities of leadership. Male intuition discerns which men can be trusted with power and which cannot. In Vietnam, for example, an American combat soldier evaluating one of his peers might say, "I would...
...effect is particularly pronounced in the realm of public affairs. In an earlier age, millions of Americans often came together at one time to watch a political event. Now it happens much less often," he said...
Shifrin sees a day when thousands of drivers get car insurance in exchange for a wrap. Others see the end of the world. "It's the same as putting a billboard in your front yard. The public realm is being visually polluted," says Jim Chappell, president of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association. Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert, a Washington watchdog group, wonders if auto ads can be outlawed as a traffic hazard. "The advertising industry is in our face at every turn, and many of us feel assaulted...
That last point is exactly what inhabitants of major cities fear most. OK, plenty of New Yorkers have long harbored a secret hope that rising crime rates will yank housing prices back into the realm of reason. But for the most part, city dwellers have spent the past five or six years in a state of uneasy contentment, pleased but mystified by the drop in crime, never quite believing they were safe. Maybe it's better that we never got too comfortable...