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...escapist streak is evident in rave clothing, which tends toward loud primary colors, patterned wool caps and untucked shirts emblazoned with peace signs, happy faces and corporate logos. A key part of the look is "trip toys," or out-of-kilter trinkets and prankish paraphernalia like op-art jewelry, prism eyeglasses and fluorescent body paint. "A trip toy is something that will catch people's attention and make them smile," says Niles Peacock, who attends raves with a ball-point pen that transforms into a tiny soap-bubble blower. "The whole purpose is amusement...
Bush's shrinking presidency is, oddly enough, partly the result of his re- election strategy. Since late last year, Bush has seen his campaign through the prism of 1988, when he ignored his advisers' pleas and waited until August before casting off the constraints of the vice presidency and posing as a moderate who had chafed under Ronald Reagan's conservative shackles. Bush, who likes to lower expectations and then surprise everyone by beating the depressed odds, again wants to wait until the Republican Convention in August to redefine himself. Bush expected that just as in 1988, he would slip...
...herself, above all. Steinem's lengthy quest for self-validation has loosened her personal reticence somewhat, but she still chafes at being viewed through that prism. Yes, she has finally furnished her Upper East Side brownstone with more than boxes, saved money for the first time in her life, taken up an exercise regimen, untangled her relationship with multimillionaire Mortimer Zuckerman, and learned to relax, but why should anyone care? Unless, of course, she decides it matters in the broader scheme of promoting self- actualization. More than a tinge of naivete colors this side of Steinem, whose struggle to balance...
America is also on Japan's mind and stays there even after a Japanese outgrows blue jeans. American books, both pop and profound, can at times sell more in Japanese translation than back home in English. News is often seen through an American prism. Trends and movements sweep across the Pacific from America and take root. In Japan these days many people prefer whale watching to whale eating: environmentalism has arrived...
...vision for a new global order. Bush's sense of the hierarchy of nations is still shaped by the habits of the cold war -- otherwise why did he wait three years to make a state visit to Japan? In contrast, the Democratic contenders primarily view the world through the prism of economics, and here Japan far outranks Boris Yeltsin's Russia...