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...longer the law of the land. Now, in the noisy streets and legislatures and the bare chambers of the individual conscience, that most fundamental question -- Who decides whether a woman can have an abortion? -- must itself be redecided. With that, America is entering new moral and political territory, rough and uncharted, but lit by the phosphor of righteous certainties. And as the combatants square off with their irreconcilable notions of life and liberty, the middle ground, what there is of it, promises to become scorched earth...
...exquisitely balanced and Vivier's have more graceful lines (he made Ferraris for the feet), Ferragamo was the great improviser and engineer. He thought with his hands. He never made drawings of shoes, but constructed them by pulling pieces of leather over wooden models of feet. Those were his rough drafts...
...round concrete building the O's had used since 1954. It contained nearly 4,500 obstructed view seats. Row 33 in the upper deck was high enough to give one of my friends a nosebleed. Don't get me wrong. I loved the place. It was pure Balti-more--rough but noble, sturdy and dependable, a family park...
...truly rough stuff will rise, virgin-like, from the same "independent expenditure" group that produced the Willie Horton ad in 1988. Four years ago, these conservative ideologues called themselves "Americans for Bush"; this time they're the "Presidential Victory Committee." They have a $10 million budget, and "what they'll do," says Stone, "is kind of obvious." All they've said so far is what they won't do: they won't establish a 900 number so the curious can hear the Gennifer Flowers tapes. Beyond that, every mini-scandal and Clinton slickery is considered fair game...
...interests. He'll never prove that Bush is just as bad as him, but he's got to try and take character off the table by muddying the waters. If he doesn't, he'll be left trying to convince voters that he has integrity, and that's a rough road." To which an unsmiling and depressed senior Clinton aide says, "He's got that right...