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...ahead was as daunting as the one just completed. He had beaten the incumbent. He had beaten the heir apparent to the legendary Daley machine. And now he had triumphed in one of the bitterest and most racially divisive political fights in recent American history. But his election had swung a wrecking ball into the political foundation of The City That Works, the patronage-fueled Democratic machine. So with soothing and inspiring words befitting the son of a preacher, he tried to bandage the wounds. "I want to reach out my hand in friendship and fellowship to every living soul...
...next world. Brodie, like Freud, is fond of cigars, panatellas called Solzhenitsyns. He is also fond of a fat, fast-talking actor named Willett. At a last dance high above the flooded streets of Manhattan, Brodie decides to go down with the earth: "Faces sweated in candleshine, bodies swung, turned, swayed ... To hell with that cold contrived ... spaceship horror...
...rard Garouste. Taken together, they were fairly instructive. Here are three rising, though by no means certified, reputations; yet their success seems tinged with panic. They are all young (Longo is 30, Salle 31, and Garouste 37) and, of course, figurative - the pendulum of taste having now swung so far that it is practically impossible to have a rising reputation if you are a new abstract painter. Each, in his way, is a perfect subject of the "postmodernist" image machine, that powerful contraption which, modeled on corporate p.r. lines, has transformed the very nature of reputation in the art world...
Seldom has any IMF decision been so broadly controversial. The total U.S. share of the amount to be added to the fund would be $8.4 billion. The Reagan Administration, which last summer showed no enthusiasm for a sizable increase, has swung around and now strongly favors it. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and other top officials are less sanguine than before that the world financial system can withstand major defaults from the debt-heavy developing world. But last week's proposals will face tough going in the U.S. Congress...
With 1:55 left in the final period. Harvard's Dave Burke swung into action and clinched the game. A perfectly executed shot eluded B.C.'s "sophomore sensation" goalie Bob O'Connor, bounced off the crossbar and landed squarely in the net, sewing up the Beanpot for Harvard...