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...disruptive adolescence of Newt Gingrich. This year it means Clinton's projecting himself as a vigorous, vital, people-loving, curious, future-minded Not-Dole. Since the President won't get much cooperation from a Republican Congress, he will focus on other strategic alliances rather than push new programs that reek of Big Government--working with business leaders on TV standards, with Governors on welfare reform, with local groups advocating school uniforms. "People don't want to kill government; they want to fix it," argues presidential counselor Bill Curry. "They want practical solutions that don't need a rewrite...
...would improve the quality of my life immensely. For example, I would not walk to class every morning over a carpet of the detritus smokers leave behind in the evident assumption that the Cigarette Butt Fairy is coming to pick up after them shortly. My common room would not reek of the smoke that drifts up from the courtyard where I live. I would be able to walk past the Widener steps, the doors of Sever Hall and numerous other areas which are, technically, fed by an oxygenated atmosphere, without my lungs going into screaming shutdown. And everyone who lives...
...subtle strengths of this novel that it quietly subverts the note of tropical passion and romance that it initially seems to promise. Pico Iyer is among the finest travel writers of his generation, and his experience-his worldliness-endows the pages of this book with the reek of authenticity: the novel is dense and pungent with perfect detail. This same worldliness provides the undercurrent of cool reality about people's lives, their impossible dreams and inevitable disappointments, that makes Cuba and the Night the most promising and beguiling of fiction debuts...
Ball-points, though less bold, have their own lore. They always work well in structured environments full of forms and charts and whatnot; they reek of office work and documentation. Have you ever seen a salesperson at Macy's fill in a tri-copy receipt with anything but a ball-point, sometimes engraved with the manager's son's little league team slogan, squeezed between well-manicured fingernails? In German class, I saw the ball-point ratio skyrocket. Even the Europeans, whom I had always romanticized as the last bastion of the noble fountain-pen glory, were filling in blanks...
...work you've missed since September. If you must get out, explore the North End or Inman Square. And don't even think about the Grille. Almost anywhere ordinarily worth going will be clotted with 16-year-olds wearing Harvard sweatshirts so new they still reek of plastic...