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...first, the idea of creating the position seemed more a way of dealing with the Jackson factor than of dealing with drugs. Faced with an unpredictable and ambitious rabble-rouser, the Democrats didn't want Jackson on the ticket and weren't too excited about the prospect of having him in the cabinet. What to do? Create a positon where he could, under the auspices of the government, travel from school to school, reminding students to put "hope in their brains" instead of "dope in their veins." It would be harmless...
Cardenas, 54, whose sagging jowls and doleful eyes give him the appearance of a bloodhound, is far from a leftist rabble-rouser. His speeches are often as dour as his looks. But his message -- declaring the need for a change of both government and policies -- is popular at a time when Mexico's economic problems slice deep into the purchasing power of its poor. By some estimates, real wages have fallen to the levels of the early 1970s. Particularly well received is his call for renegotiation of Mexico's $103 billion foreign debt...
...publicity has been orchestrated by Brawley Lawyers Alton Maddox and Vernon Mason, veterans of New York City's race-drenched politics, and Pentecostal Minister Al Sharpton, a rabble-rouser from Brooklyn who calls New York Governor Mario Cuomo a racist and has likened State Attorney General Robert Abrams, special prosecutor in the case, to Hitler. Sharpton even contends that the assault is part of a racist plot linked to the Irish Republican Army...
...Like a pizza in the rain/ . . . No one wants to take you home/ But I love you just the same"), there is no doubt that this album is a passport to alien territory. The music -- which includes Jerry Harrison's sinister Man with a Gun, the roof-raising African rouser High Life by Sonny Okosun and a Jamaican-flavored remake of the rock war-horse Wild Thing by Sister Carol -- is so shrewdly chosen and sequenced that it becomes an experience on its own, inflected by the film's moods but not dependent on them. Something Wild...
Abbott is hardly a rabble-rouser. Says she: "I'm real Suzy Homemaker--Cub Scouts, baseball, sewing." In the living room a pair of Cabbage Patch dolls sit in a rocker, and a crucifix is on the mantle. The big, office-style water cooler is the one unorthodox fixture. Nodding in the direction of her daughter, she jokes, "When she's bad, she gets tap water...