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Publicity pays. The membership at Henry's Hideaway has soared to 700 of all faiths. The English writer Hilaire Belloc put it another way: "Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there is always laughter and good red wine...
...teacher. Mulligan is the only person ever shown as teaching, albeit in the unusual format of dressing up as Lincoln, Washington, and Custer. He is the only actor who invests his part with the gentleness that great teachers possess. But Mulligan's work is wasted. No actor can really shine in a role that is essentially a bad joke. Yes, you guessed it: "You have to be crazy to teach...
...from Boy George will away any culture Club fanatic to vote Republican (most of them are too young to vote anyway), but for associations of youth, glamour, and vitality that they bring. Reagan, the Acting President, realizes that he does not need the personal OK of a superstar to shine from his or her reflected charisma. Reagan's hyper-publicized photo with God's Gift to the Sequin Industry was seen by more potential voters than the Republican National convention, and was a lot easier on the eyes. One would almost suspect that the blue and gold officer's jacket...
...Lance contretemps, however, was upstaged by Ferraro's first march through the South, where ten states out of eleven went for Reagan in 1980. It was in Mississippi and Texas that she seemed to shine the brightest. In Queens, a crowd of 3,000 proved listless despite the pantheon of New York Democrats on hand. In Cleveland, where the candidates addressed the National Urban League conference, the mostly black audience offered attentive applause. But in Jackson, a throng of 4,000 waited in a drizzly rain for the pair and, when Mondale and Ferraro appeared on the steps...
Still, those who have jobs may consider themselves among the lucky. Officially, 12% of the city's inhabitants are unemployed, but underemployment runs to nearly 40%. As one U.S. expert puts it, "If a 35-year-old man with a wife and children spends his days hoping to shine shoes, is he employed?" To some, the answer lies in burglary and theft, which have risen 35% in the past year...