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...mollify opponents of women in the ministry, America' s Episcopalians and the Church of England approve awkward compromises...
...awkward title says it all: the platform tries to meld the "competence" of Michael Dukakis with the "hope" conveyed by Jesse Jackson. "Restoration" can be seen as a small bow to the platform's author, Theodore Sorensen, who was John Kennedy's speechwriter. Sorensen's secret: exhausting run-on sentences that cleverly mask meaning with their painful paucity of verbs...
...marvel, 18 pages that contain as many true surprises as a protracted piece of trickery by John Fowles. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love gets to the heart of sexual passion and its black aftermath. Both stories place an established couple in a charged, awkward confrontation with another couple -- a Carver specialty. He is 50 now, and considered a hot writer; 25 years after he began fashioning these tough, unliterary works, they are being picked up eagerly as emblems of late...
...against anyone remains to be seen. As rumors of impending indictments swept the beleaguered Pentagon, Carlucci took a calm view. He advised, "Let's not jump off the cliff before we find out what we're talking about here." That may take a while, but the timing could be awkward. If the Justice Department sticks to its announced deadline, the indictments could come shortly before the November election. For the Administration, that would be an ill wind indeed...
...question of whether to Spike or not to Spike puts Government antidrug crusaders, environmentalists and corporate America in an awkward three-way tug-of-war. Last week Sandra Marquardt of the environmental group Greenpeace accused the State Department of a "scorched-earth tactic that threatens to wipe out most plant life in the region for five years or more." Scientists for the Environmental Protection Agency say Tebuthiuron can harm useful vegetation if it leaches into groundwater. Ecologists contend that it would be difficult for farmers to grow crops after the coca has been destroyed. They point out that Spike...