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...Massachusetts delegates who did say it is now easer to be Republican, attribute much of Weld's success to the increasing number of Republican in the State House. "Not only do we have a Republican governor, but we also have the senators to sustain the vetoes," Tisei said...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Massachusetts Republicans Come Back | 8/21/1992 | See Source »

...their work, and so does Anders, whose first major feature this is. A single mother (and once a welfare client), she is less interested in making melodrama -- or ideological points -- out of these lives than she is in showing how testy affection and a $ talent for emotional improvisation can sustain "family values" in no-budget circumstances. Anders' film is a compassionate meditation on the desperate lengths to which poverty-ridden decency must go to preserve itself. As such, it makes ruminations on this subject by the likes of Dan Quayle look supremely irrelevant. She's talking reality; they're talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Values Get Real | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

...these tracks are hardly enough to sustain this slight album (it only contains about thirty minutes worth of music). Could it be that Morrissey's morbid imagination is floundering because he's secretly found happiness? There's got to be some explanation for his lack of gusto on Your Arsenal. Too often, he doesn't even sound interested in his own dejection...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: An Empty Arsenal | 8/14/1992 | See Source »

...insane world where color contains the only meaning to emerge into a new landscape where it has none. No longer the "blond bomb," her face retains no vestige of race--it is a "mesh of shadows." It is a test of James' power and versatility that he manages to sustain this visionary moment as well as the earlier absurdity. With Negrohobia, he has produced an assured and devestatingly funny first novel...

Author: By Davids. Kurnick, | Title: Negrophobia is a Racy Tale Of Flesh, Freaks and Fear | 8/14/1992 | See Source »

Coming the other way, legally, a half-mile-long column of oil tankers stream beneath a giant portrait of Saddam that marks an archway over the desert border. Each day they bring 50,000 bbl. of cut-rate fuel to Amman to sustain the stumbling economy of Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Keep On Trucking | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

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