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When Operation Rescue leaders announced the protest last January, they were counting on the fact that 65% of area residents are Roman Catholic and on the mayor's sympathy toward their cause. But that too was a miscalculation. According to Goldhaber, 57% of area residents describe themselves as pro- choice, and 63% of those who describe themselves as pro-life opposed the group's plans. As for Mayor Griffin, he is not terribly popular with his constituents. His approval rating stands at 38%, and last year he was trounced in the race for county executive...
Ruth's parents abandoned him to a Roman Catholic industrial school specializing in "incorrigible" boys when he was an oversize, undereducated kid, and he went right from it into baseball. In other words, he was adapted only to heavily masculine, institutional worlds, and then solely as show-off, big spender and clown. His first marriage, to a homebody (played here with spunky charm by Trini Alvarado), was a disaster; the only family that counted with him was the team and the raffish demimonde it inhabited off the field. Ruth fared better the second time around. Claire Ruth (Kelly McGillis...
...bride, an aging ex-nun, allows herself to be swirled by her staid groom, a mailman who unexpectedly proves a sure-footed dancer. Even Momma, the embittered matriarch of the Irish-American Towne clan, permits herself a few sentimental tears. But when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn bride -- and the family will sink back into the regret and loss that threaten to smother three generations of Townes...
...reorganizing the magazine, we have made aesthetic changes as well. We believe you will find the new design of the pages cleaner and more direct, making it easier for you to find what most interests you. We have replaced Times Roman, the body typeface since the 1940s, with Time Text, drawn for us by Boston type designer David Berlow. The type is based on sturdy, clear styles like Century and Madison, which became popular in American newspapers at the last turn of the century. While you may notice that some pictures are bigger, the overall balance between photos and text...
...wishers go further. "Clinton is going to have to find some forum in which he confronts these character questions directly," says former Democratic National Chairman John White. He has in mind something like John F. Kennedy's televised confrontation with Protestant ministers in Houston that defused concerns about his Roman Catholicism -- and its supposed influence on his policies -- early in the 1960 campaign. Natalie Davis, a political-science professor at Birmingham-Southern College, draws a different analogy. Says she: "At some strategic moment in the fall, he's going to have to give a sort of Checkers speech ((referring...