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...intent on avoiding the tag "the next Jimmy Carter," Dukakis is acting a great deal like...
...instead, Dukakis is telling Jackson to go his own way, namely to Black communities. Recently, the Dukakis campaign alloted Jackson and other Black Democratic leaders $5 million of the Dukakis campaign's $50 million budget for a get-out-the-Black-vote drive. Dukakis himself seems intent on remaining out of Black communites lest some white swing voters deem him sympathetic to Black causes...
Unfortunately, the revelations about Jones are not monstrous enough (she was erratic mentally and took drugs) to disguise the real intent of the novel's rather soapy second half: to find a nice, sexy, feminist man for Polly. Why is this soapy? Because the author misplaces the fine edge of irony with which she described the lesbian Jeanne. Her tone becomes ever so slightly earnest. And earnest, in the writing of social comedy, is what it is very important...
...first half of the game, and the first 10 to 20 seconds of each Crimson possession, Harvard played like a team intent on living up to its number-one ranking...
...were traded. But for skeptics who have seen it all before, the proof is not in the prospecting but in the follow-up. Says Monte Trammer, the first black publisher of New York's Saratoga Springs Saratogian: "Affirmative action appears to be an area where whites are rewarded for intent and effort rather than results...