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Little Rock, Arkansas, these days is a sump of brazen supplication. Members of Bill Clinton's transition staff report that a lawyer from Wyoming called to say he should be made a federal judge; a businessman from Arkansas wrote a five-page letter explaining why he should be named ambassador to the Court of St. James's; and people with the remotest connection to the President-elect say they have not paid for a lunch or dinner in weeks. But there is one man who is so close to power that he does not need...
City is a dirty word now. To most Americans it is the hole the welfare state crawled in to die. It is the grand urban experiment -- O.K., everybody into the melting pot -- gone spectacularly awry. And what's left? The city as techno-sump, the pot of ordure at the end of the rainbow coalition, the dead end of Sesame Street...
...Thatcher is "the ultimate argument against the contention that a political leader needs, in her person, to be popular." There are many explanations for Thatcher's successful unpopularity that are specific to Britain: the parliamentary system, the weakness of the opposition, the role of the Queen as an alternative sump for public adulation, a cultural willingness to be bullied (or, to use the preferred term, nannied...
Fortunately, Elvira is more than just an extended TV show. Not much more, but as Elvira herself would probably say, whadja expect? Great art or sump...
...Moscow to warn his superiors about the gunslinger. At congressional prayer breakfasts, where devout Americans roared and heaved, he was the pious atheist. He negotiated the new Soviet embassy on Washington's highest and best land, while the new American embassy in Moscow ended up in a sump...