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...romantic and half skeptic). A night manager in discreet hotels, Pine is, by definition, a "close observer" of people, a spy -- or novelist -- without a cause. In this instance his eye is trained largely on a glamorous slice of the "English leisure class": a jet-setting arms dealer, Dicky Roper, who is charming enough to be a Cabinet minister; his young plaything of a mistress; and such attendants as Sandy Langbourne, a sulky, beautiful, ponytailed lord with a gift for extermination...
CREDIT: From a U.S. survey of 992 adults and 506 high school students taken for the American Jewish Committee by the Roper Organization. Sampling error is plus or minus 4% and plus or minus 5% for adults and students respectively...
...prove ephemeral, because voters' preferences are, in pollsterspeak, "lightly held." In 1988 Michael Dukakis' 17-point lead over George Bush disappeared in a twinkle. This year the public's extraordinarily sour mood makes horse-race numbers still more suspect. "In this atmosphere," says Everett Carll Ladd, director of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, "polls often become a source of misinformation rather than insight into what's happening...
...Americans agree with Bush. More immigrants arrived on these shores in the 1980s than in any other decade in the country's history. Last year alone, the U.S. absorbed 1.8 million foreigners. A majority of Americans, some 55%, want a moratorium on new arrivals, according to a Roper survey. "How many can we absorb in a time of recession and high unemployment?" argues Representative E. Clay Shaw, a Republican supporter of Bush's. "We've got to protect our shores, our people...
Contrary to Faludi's backlash thesis, the signs that women are having second thoughts are not purely an invention of the media. In 1985, given the choice between having a job or staying home to care for the family, 51% of women preferred to work, according to the Roper Organization; by 1991 that number fell to 43%, and 53% said they would rather stay home. It is certainly possible to see this self-questioning not as a sign of weakness but as a sign of strength. "It's not a sense of defeat. But it's saying, 'I have many...