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...both elections, there was the choice of the lesser of two evils, and Blacks allowed others to do the picking...
...Missouri-Mississippi watershed all the way to the Gulf," said Gilman. That was caused by a split in the jet stream, which usually carries storms across California into the Midwest, sucking moisture up from the Gulf. But this year its larger current swung north to Hudson Bay, its lesser branch south to Mexico, leaving the midlands arid and hot. Now, after nearly three months of deprivation, the great Missouri-Mississippi watershed has fused into a giant arc of aching thirst. The heartland bower of James Whitcomb Riley and Edgar Lee Masters, of Indiana and Illinois, has received less than half...
Each year, thousands of lesser-known Americans learn the hard way that buying a handgun does not assure protection, but only future trouble. They buy handguns with the expressed purpose of protecting themselves, only to end up using them during family spats or lovers' quarrels with tragic, unforeseen results...
...testing spot for large-scale sculpture. Anything displayed there must face not only the permanent collection of pieces by David Smith, Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero and other virtuosos of bigness, but the setting itself: a mountain with sweeping green ledges and infolding valleys whose scale can reduce lesser work to mere bibelots. Tucker's show, which runs through October, survives both comparisons...
...Fortune, Eastwood the auteur is an imposing ambassador for American star quality. It so happens that the film he brought to Cannes, which he directed but does not appear in, is no great shakes. It meanders like a 2- hr. 43-min. sax solo by one of Parker's lesser disciples, and it never quite explains how Parker enriched the language of sound. Still, the film was well received, and Bird was expected to win one of the top prizes. Instead, the Palme d'Or went to the Danish film Pelle the Conqueror, and Bird was given lesser awards...