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Gore is probably fine in Tampa, provided he gets a good turnout among blacks, Hispanics and working-class whites. Many of the Cuban and Italian graybeards who drink big, foamy cups of cafe con leche and talk politics every morning at the La Ideal Cafeteria and the West Tampa Sandwich Shop said they are going to stick with the Democratic ticket, even though Gore is like a bowl of black beans without the onions and spice. "I like Gore on Social Security and the environment," said Carlos Reyes, 55, who runs a medical-billing company. But Reyes says people will...
...Cuban-born, Boston-based artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons accosts her viewers with an accusatory solemnity. The way Campos-Pons looks out from her self-portraits reminds me of how Frida Kahlo stares out of hers; the two artists both use the self-portrait as a vehicle for complicated meditations on maternity, pain and nationality. In "Nesting I" (2000), four large-format Polaroids set side by side, the two photographs in the middle show the artist with her eyes calmly shut, her face decorated with yellow and green paint, her shoulders and neck with cruel scratches. The wooden bird perched...
...brilliant fall Saturday in New York State, the surface of Congers Lake reflects the small airplane motoring above it, rolling left, flipping over, circling in a Cuban Eight, then gliding effortlessly through the October wind. "Flying straight like that is very delicate," offers one nervous spectator. "He has the bare minimum amount of wind under his wings. If he gets it wrong, that plane will crash, straight down. You won't see it again...
...times, and like many authors of his generation, he is enthralled with the conceit that the politics and culture of his time just happened to complicate themselves in synch with his life: his loss of innocence is paired with the quiz-show scandals, his home terrors with the Cuban missile crisis, his maturing and breaking away from home with Martin Luther King's assassination...
...Gore is probably fine in Tampa, provided he gets a good turnout among blacks, Hispanics and working-class whites. Many of the Cuban and Italian graybeards who drink big, foamy cups of café con leche and talk politics every morning at the La Ideal Cafeteria and the West Tampa Sandwich Shop said they are going to stick with the Democratic ticket, even though Gore is like a bowl of black beans without the onions and spice. "I like Gore on Social Security and the environment," said Carlos Reyes, 55, who runs a medical billing company. But Reyes says people...