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...Great Society programs begun by Lyndon Johnson, Head Start seemed the most ennobling. What could be worthier than tending to the education and health of America's preschoolers? Over time, the program has achieved wide popularity, and the pledge to "fully fund" it has become a kind of mantra among politicians across the ideological spectrum. Yet full funding has remained a dream -- until now. "We all know Head Start . . . is a success story," Bill Clinton told Congress last month. "We all know that it saves money, ((and)) under ((my)) plan every eligible child will be able to get a head...
Without aiding Jesse Helms, might one advise performance artists that there are worthier topics than graphic details of sexual awakening? David Drake's THE NIGHT LARRY KRAMER KISSED ME comes from a radicalized gay who is too busy satirizing cruising in bars and gyms to define the thinking that shaped him. Josh Kornbluth's RED DIAPER BABY is less ably performed yet livelier because it recounts a more exotic upbringing -- as a son of doctrinaire U.S. communists. But Kornbluth barely hints at his own political evolution after an eye-opening trip to Russia, while devoting queasily explicit minutes to losing...
...dimensions was not so clear-cut. Other key issues gripping the West and Japan included Soviet compliance with arms reductions, the security of Eastern Europe's newborn democracies, and the plight of the Baltic republics. Overarching those quandaries was the question of who in the U.S.S.R. was now the worthier negotiating partner: a diminished Gorbachev or leaders of the newly muscular, more reform-driven republics -- especially the Russian president and hero of the hour, Boris Yeltsin...
...through the 44-year-old Quayle to a younger generation of voters. This last hope was dashed when Republican pollsters determined that voters in Quayle's age group resented him as someone born to wealth and privilege who had not paid his dues, yet had been elevated over worthier candidates...
...homemade. There are a few storebought prints--one is of flowers in a flowerpot and hangs above a primitive, impressionistic crepe-paper poster also resembling a flowerpot. Distorted. Things often get distorted, like the self-images of healthy women and girls, women who think they would be worthier if only they were thinner or if they ate less or purged more...