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...distinctions in subtle terms. "This is no time for politics as usual," he said in Pennsylvania. "We don't need to massage Reaganomics; we need Jackson action." By inference, he was saying that Dukakis is a masseur whereas he is an orthopedic surgeon who will rearrange the economy's skeleton. In an interview with TIME, Jackson lapsed into the third person: "There will be a lot of comparative analysis between our approaches. Who can excite the crowds? Jackson. Jesse also has a definitive plan and a budget, for fighting drugs, for building housing." That kind of specificity, along with Jackson...
...bells of L'Aquila tolled dolorously last week in mourning for a missing Pope. The remains of 13th century Pope St. Celestine V -- a nearly intact skeleton with a wax face -- had been stolen from the city's basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio. Celestine occupied St. Peter's chair for five months in 1294, and then abdicated -- an act Dante alluded to as the "great refusal." He was canonized...
...Pete and Tampa at each other's wryneck throats. Bucking nature and tradition, both have been bidding for full-time baseball, either an expansion team or a carpetbagger. Tampa has gone so far as to draw up blueprints for a domed stadium. St. Pete has gone much further: the skeleton of its dome has already been assembled on the former site of a gas plant (prompting a Tampa editorial cartoonist to depict the players and fans in gas masks). The state is growing, and Floridians no longer believe it to be in the proper order of things that they restrict...
...ripped away in favor of a charmless white marble skin in the mid- 1960s. The dowager has been turned into a cheap mummy, yet the disposition of Times Tower remains an architectural cause celebre. Johnson and Burgee once proposed that the building be stripped down to its steel skeleton, gaily painted and lighted -- a wry Piranesian folly absolutely perfect for the spot. What seems more likely, alas, is that the building will be demolished and replaced by a conventionally highfalutin plaza, monumental and mute...
...oppression mutilates us all. We've got to be angry and sad and even afraid, and from these feelings we have to get the inspiration to transform ourselves and society. The personal and the political are, indeed, one, which means that each of us has his or her own skeleton closet to unpack. Please, don't wait another day. Iris Bennett...