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...process of making Watson larger than life somewhat undermines the larger, tougher themes of the book. Elsewhere the author's moral anguish is inescapable, and he can write like an avenging angel. His human sympathies range widely, from blacks who count neither as men nor animals, to Choctaws who are just slightly higher on the scale of outcasts, to Watson's pretty daughter, who at 13 is virtually sold into marriage and three years later still plays skip rope in the streets of Fort Myers...
...latest crop of adults wants to postpone growing up. At a time when they should be graduating, entering the work force and starting families of their own, the twentysomething crowd is balking at those rites of passage. A prime reason is their recognition that the American Dream is much tougher to achieve after years of housing-price inflation and stagnant wages. Householders under the age of 25 were the only group during the 1980s to suffer a drop in income, a decline of 10%. One result: fully 75% of young males 18 to 24 years old are still living...
...Democratic corpse has shown signs of resurrection in recent weeks. The push against tougher state abortion laws and the proposed constitutional amendment on flag burning could be the beginning of a Democratic resurgence...
...million tons they purchase). Yet the area's newspapers use only 130,000 tons of recycled material yearly. Since the entire Northeast has just one recycling plant, much of the waste paper is shipped abroad for re-use. Suffolk County legislator Maxine Postal, who sponsored the tougher bill, claims that its whole point is to entice paper companies to add de-inking facilities (cost: $40 million to $80 million each) or to build new recycling plants (at $450 million apiece...
...dinner meeting of America's board of directors, heavily from the midland where they grow things and make things. Now that the Gorbachev glow has faded and the glitz is gone, George Bush and his crew have the tougher job of helping the Soviet Union gear up for the open world and the marketplace...