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...Midwest, hit hardest by the 1981-82 recession, many traditional Democrats went for Reagan, convinced that his programs deserved credit for the economic recovery. "I've always voted Democratic, but this time I'm a Reagan man," said Ron Firmite, a butcher from Sawyer, Mich. "Everybody in my family is working now, and so is everybody I know who wants to work. That's a big change from a few years ago." In Illinois, the warring Democratic factions of Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Cook County Party Boss Edward Vrdolyak reached a fragile truce but were still...
...thing is sure, the movie will not lack for churning, monster-a-minute energy. The plot is the oldest in literature, a quest: confront the Minotaur, find the Holy Grail, follow the yellow brick road. Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer is sheltering unhappily in an empty New Hampshire tourist hotel, where his mother Lily, a washed-up B-movie queen, is wasting away with cancer. A mysterious old black man named Speedy, who tends a carrousel, hints that if Jack can reach California and find something called the talisman, all will be well. Part of the journeying will be through...
...hoodoos encountered in a rancid roadhouse in New York, a corrupt orphanage in Ohio, and a nuclear-wasted parallel-Nevada in the Territories are maggoty and colorful, but also wearisomely repetitive. The horrors there on the page are visually ingenious, but they never echo in the mind. Jack Sawyer has two unvarying reactions, fearfulness and pluck. The co-written sentences are so gaudy and muscular they seem phony, like the deltoids of a bodybuilder ("The alligator-thing ran with slow, clumsy, thudding determination. Its eyes sparkled with murderous fury and intelligence. The vestiges of breasts bounced on its scaly chest...
...turned out, the two members finally added had stronger ideological ties than most potential questioners: CBS News Correspondent Diane Sawyer worked for Richard Nixon at the White House and after he resigned, and Baltimore Sun Reporter Fred Barnes writes a column for the conservative monthly American Spectator. A fourth seat was offered to two New York Times reporters, Gerald Boyd and Hedrick Smith, who refused because they disapproved of the extensive vetoes. The Times's Washington editor, William Kovach, announced that the newspaper would boycott further debates this year: "We cannot encourage a process that has a political saliva...
...person." White House aides said that for the first time in the campaign, the mood in the White House was tense. Given the right to veto reporters suggested by the League of Women Voters as panel questioners, the two sides rejected almost 100 before settling on Diane Sawyer of CBS, James Wieghart of Scripps-Howard News Service and Fred Barnes of the Baltimore...