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...their grandmother country don't all return charmed. "On my first visits I was shocked by all the slums and poverty," says George Hunnicutt, 63, great-grandson of the Confederate colony's first doctor. "So last year, when I took my grandchildren there, I decided to show them the storybook side of America. We went to Disney World, Epcot Center and Sea World...
...right new moves: he deconstructed his text and undercut it with the cadences of a Borscht Belt raconteur. But on the page, Goldman's wordplay seemed too much of a jape. It needed the expanse of cinema -- where on the late show Errol Flynn and Gunga Din are still storybook young -- to revive the poetry of fable. Now, 14 years later, he and Rob Reiner have got it smashingly right...
Even with the Southern regional primary, a storybook ending is unlikely, at least in 1988. Clinton and even a well-funded Gore would be starting late with little national following. But with secure local bases, these Cotton Dust Twins have little to lose by whistling Dixie -- making a national name, picking up some Southern delegates and, at worst, positioning themselves for 1992 and beyond...
...this is an opportune time to recount some of the highlights from individual games in the first half of this storybook season...
...time for a government to produce an impact," says Businessman Leonardo Alejandrino, "especially a government that almost by its own admission was not ready to hold office. But it is a long enough time for the euphoria to start wearing thin." Fortune may have lent a hand with the storybook beginning, but it is up to Aquino alone to secure a happy ending...