Word: tales
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tale of two cities, then: the best of times and the worst. Says Arthur Taylor, former president of CBS and now head of a business organization called the New York Partnership: "What we have in the city right now is an island on which enormous wealth is being created, surrounded by a sea of economic deprivation." What New York has, in short, is a problem. The problem was not created in the past four years, but it has been made more apparent than ever within that time by the fact that on the whole, the city...
...players like Howard Slusher, Mike Trope and Jerry Argovitz, who have intervened to assume leading roles in the never-ending tale, "Agent for the Offense." Nor can the national political parties, who orchestrate possibly the most staged and laughable of all sporting events--the political conventions (which wind up resembling a circus more than a horse race...
...this summer, a word of caution: None of the adolescent boys who star in My Bodyguard fall in love. They don't even become infatuated. Girls are brace-faced idiots who fill in the empty classrooms of the John Fleer School in Chicago, Ill. That makes this heart-warming tale of pubescent-bonding much simpler, of course, since females don't get in the way. Their absence casts a strange aura over this film, where the only libidinous urges come from Ruth Gordon, playing a grandmother with lust in her heart. Not that sex should be everything. But in tenth...
...whereas today the Olympics are suspended for wars. In fact, the first Olympics were dry runs for wars. Once, in 364 B.C., the Eleians turned a dry run into the real McCoy and swooped down on the Pisates during the Games. They won. The modern marathon,"inspired by the tale of a soldier who ran 25 miles to report a victory, commemorates both politics and conquest. As for the glory of fighting well, one needs only to read Pindar on the ignominy of the losers...
Bush stoutly denies this story. "Absolutely not," he says. And, since it makes his campaign seem thoughtfully planned rather than indecisive or excessively gentlemanly, the tale may indeed contain an element of after-the-fact rationalizing. But Bush's campaign could hardly have been better designed to make him Vice President than if that really had been its purpose from the start...