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...problems have to do with asking, 'Could this be real?'--and thinking it could not be." Problems? What problems? A steamy novel by a glamorous celebrity that read as if it were not "real"? Faced with such an object, many editors and publishers would have immediately ordered up a dust jacket and a print run of 200,000 copies...
However, when the dust had settled, it was obvious that the better team had won. Given recent hockey history, however, that is also bizarre...
...STUDENTS OF IRONY and pity, the presidential race last week offered its most piercing lessons yet. There was Bob Dole, the Dust Bowl, small-town boy who would still have the use of his right arm if the war had ended three weeks earlier, finding his fate in the pink, uncallused hands of a millionaire preppie publisher who grew up in a house with a name and claims to have honed his survival skills at summer camp...
PARDON MY DUST...
Well, sure. Something has happened to the American psyche, even in the highest tax brackets, that has given Detroit a jolt of renewed self-esteem and left foreign manufacturers struggling in the dust. Even looking backward, it is not clear why. Maybe the baby boomers, grown thick in the waist, were bored with being sensible. Without any question--the brief dawn a few years ago of the tiny, puppyish Miata sports convertible aside--cars had grown tedious and indistinguishable. A Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes said, "I've got mine, and I'm rich." A Volkswagen Golf...