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...field. Among the Democrats, the race remains as wide open as a frontier town on a Saturday night. Senator Joseph Biden was supposed to speak to a new generation, but then so was new- formula Coke. Congressman Richard Gephardt tried to trade on protectionism, only to see that issue sink like the dollar. Governor Michael Dukakis made inroads by warbling about his "Massachusetts miracle," but that chirpy refrain badly needs a second verse. One small surprise is that Senator Paul Simon is holding his own, bow tie and all, despite (or perhaps because of) his genuine, unapologetic liberal views...
They fear that creatures unknown to science are gestating in the sink of their slum flat. They know their agents can give them just as short shrift by long distance. Perhaps a country visit will rescue their faith in the universe's orderliness. Well, they have reckoned without the rain, mud and chill. Or the bull in a neighbor's field. Or the queenly ardor of Withnail's Uncle Monty (a sweetly mad Richard Griffiths), who turns up to pursue his hopeless passion for "and I." Somehow, Wordsworth failed to mention these inconveniences...
Innovations in software are also driving the demand for computers. Snazzy graphics packages now enable computer users to become publishers in their dens, churning out newsletters with bar charts and photo-like illustrations. So-called computer-aided design programs help engineers, scientists and architects design everything from sink drains to jet planes. "Customers come in and say, 'Wow, look what we can do!' " reports Tim Le Tourneau, assistant manager of a Home Computing Centers store in San Bruno, Calif...
...where one mad woman thinks she's a rooster. His home environment to some would seem a nightmare; his work environment to most would seem hell. After a day of breathing the iron filings in the New York City subways, one would think he could blow his nose and sink a Hudson River liner. Worse, a braking train in a tunnel in this town can sound like a ten- ton banshee caught in a vise. And yet there he sits, caressing an acoustic guitar in bedlam, playing Bach and Mozart, Francisco Tarrega and Erik Satie, and one of the reasons...
...throw all that away, he reminds himself, for a "parson's penniless daughter!" But the Alcyone is gone the next morning, and Marion with her. Talbot wakes up, hung over yet drunk with infatuation, to face the alarming likelihood that the ship carrying him toward his appointed destination will sink...