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...like the way it came out," Houston Informer Editor George McElroy said. "I think Dukakis could have informed Jackson of his decision before the reporters got hold of it. I think eight years of Regan was enough." But he adds, "I think the grass-root person is going to stick with the Democratic party...
...closer inspection and a conditioned eye for full understanding. The trees of Minneapolis hide devastated home lawns and gardens. Out West, dry-weather weeds have sprung up in the draws of prairie pastures, adding deceptive color. All through the Midwest are fields of wheat, corn and soybeans that took root much earlier on slight rains, then simply stopped developing. They hover now between life and death, still handsome to the casual observer. A delegation of Senators and Congressmen whirled across the area in helicopters, minced around in their city shoes looking at the drought wreckage, but sometimes were not impressed...
...think of pictorial skill and a total indifference (in the work, at least) to the dark side of human experience. Does the latter make him a less serious painter? Of course not, any more than it trivialized the work of that still underrated artist Raoul Dufy. At root, Hockney is popular because his work offers a window through which one's eye moves without strain or fuss into a wholly consistent world. That world has its cast of recurrent characters -- friends, lovers and family. Hockney's portraits of his parents, in particular, are full of unabashed filial devotion, and through...
...general there was the feeling that we are living out the extensions of the '60s, the better part. There is a definite root that can be traced. We were all engaged in the present moment. The Big Chill was nothing more than a Hollywood disgrace. There is no way that a group of friends who had been engaged in the politics of the '60s would have gotten back together and [made] no mention of today's politics. --Interview by Jennifer Griffin
...permeates the sports world here, running from the Harvard admissions office to the Harvard athletic department to the Harvard playing fields. Every once in a while we'd write a cute story about women's team's fans, about how a small corps of enthusiasts would show up to root in virtual isolation, game after game. And then we'd get back to business and write previews and a game story and three columns and a notebook about some men's team...