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Democrats had vowed to abandon the folly of faction before, but these promises were like sending the Battling Bickersons to marriage counseling. But 1988 was different, in part, because the primaries symbolized the passing of the generational torch; neither Dukakis nor any of his rivals had been elected to major political office before 1974. The Democratic sweep in that post- Watergate year was a watershed, bringing to power a talented crop of young reformers -- including Dukakis -- who realized that old-fashioned liberalism was in trouble. Social issues such as busing and crime had eroded the party's blue-collar base...
Among the many piques and volleys of tennis, this year's Wimbledon had a distinct feeling of passage. For the first time since Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert doubled in love 14 years ago, two fresh champions emerged, one for the ages. The torch that Steffi Graf has been tugging at for more than a year, but that Martina Navratilova managed to hold fast last summer at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, was finally handed over gracefully, emphatically and a little sadly...
...projects that have overcome this feeling is Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, which is now being shot with Fierstein re- creating his Broadway role. But Torch Song is about a drag queen and therefore outside the range of ordinary experience, as were the vastly popular movie and musical versions of La Cage aux Folles...
...used the idea of bringing in the young blood, new thinking, new ideas into the party. He focused on 21-to 35-year-olds, and that developed a tremendous amount of momentum," Robles says. Arias used the idea that a torch had been passed to a new generation of Costa Ricans in his campaign, and that message proved to have resonance...
...been 20 years since he died, and still it is hard to take the measure of the man. Robert Kennedy was mostly a brother in his lifetime: a campaign manager, an Attorney General and then the younger brother to whom the torch was passed. Again, as a brother, he had to battle past his own dark night of the soul to take up a doomed burden, knowing that every time he rose to speak in front of a crowd it was to stare his own death in the eye. But the Kennedy magic, both a blessing and a curse, attached...