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The coming struggle for power in the Democratic Party began before the polls opened on November 8 and while the funeral meats for the inevitable Dukakis wake were still sizzling [...]

George Bush stands on the brink of victory with his lips sealed and his hands in his pockets, worried lest one word or an unwonted sign spoil the sweep now [...]

Vice President Bush charges that Governor Dukakis is a liberal hiding behind a centrist disguise. If that's true, the disguise is perfect. Almost nothing of the Duke's vaunted Massachusetts liberalism [...]

What does Jesse Jackson want?' the Reverend asked a cheering crowd of fans and friends in Detroit. 'I want Michigan. I want the nomination. I want to be President!' That's [...]

Gimme Some Spin At midnight on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, the bar at the Savery Hotel in downtown Des Moines served its last legal drinks, put the lights [...]

Guns of February Nothing brings out the beast beneath the fair skin and mild manners of Republicans better than a crowd of heavily armed and politically dangerous Gun Owners of [...]

Kemp's People It is evening in Ronald Reagan's America. A new home in an executive/professional housing tract near Manchester, New Hampshire, casts its light like a beacon through the trees [...]

God's on His Side Pat Robertson believes that 'God has a plan for everyone,' but what purpose was served by His servant's visit to the bowels of Brooklyn's Bed-ford-Stuyvesant district [...]

NOW Redux At noon on a shimmering Saturday in mid-July, acolumn of 4,000 feminist women (and many men sympathetic to their project) emerged from the shallow canyons of downtown Philadelphia [...]

The Money Game A year from now the last presidential primary willbe completed in California, the party conventions will be setting up in the steamy South, the field of candidates [...]

THE YEAR LEFT 2: Toward a Rainbow Socialism. Edited by Mike Davis,Manning Marable, Fred Pfeil and Michael Sprinker. Verso. 275 pp. $12.95. The New Left of the 1960s generatedan extraordinarily [...]

A Room With a View At first glance, A Room With a View appears to belong in the stately home of Masterpiece Theatre, that middlebrow structure built of blocks of [...]

The Hitcher Going my way? The figure of the hitchhiker keeps popping up in the American imagination in each generation to exploit a nightful of fears and a long day's [...]

Parting Glances The most difficult assignments in the cultural workplace is the task of transcendence, of moving beyond the restrictions of common consciouness to produce a work of art or [...]

Down and Out in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills! In the immortal words of George Shelton, regular panelist on the beloved radio program It Pays to Be Ignorant, 'I usta woik [...]

In the cultural economy of Hollywood, The Color Purple is a countercyclical event. It is long, complex and ideological in a time when the mass mind is supposed to have [...]

Karen Blixen had a vivid imagination. In her life, as in her craft as the pseudonymous writer Isak Dinesen, she spun Grimm and gothic tales from woolly strands of memory [...]

Sugarbaby is immediately recognizable as one of those new Euromovies with the look of a perfume commercial and the erotic tension of peep-show porn. It's got Fassbinder all over its [...]

Fool for Love Awide expanse of Western desert in the windless afternoon. The camera's lens, like a lone eagle's eye, sweeps over the stones and chaparral and settles on a [...]

Mixed Blood is a film out of another school and time--Andy Warhol's Factory of twenty years ago, where a certain oddball realism was developed, taught and presented in such films [...]

What do men want? If you asked filmmakers thirty years ago you'd get perfectly reasonable, straight-forward answers like 'to catch a big fish,' or 'to shoot down Japanese airpanes,' or [...]

Britain after the war was lovely and squalid, a paper poppy from the past in the dead land of defeat. The engine of empire which had driven culture and society [...]

On the other hand, Jagged Edge is only about chemistry. Put Glenn Close in a test tube with Jeff Bridges, shake for a couple of hours and see if you [...]

My father used to say there were two kinds of doctors. Stand-up doctors had medical degrees, so you stood up to greet them when they entered the room. Sit-down doctors [...]

News from the national auteur observatory high in the Hollywood hills is that comet Spielberg is plunging precipitously into the darker regions of infantilism, from whose bourn few producers ever [...]

War and remembrance are pivotal perches for Birdy, but the perspective in Alan Parker's novelistic film (from the pseudonymous William Wharton's 1979 novel) is wary and wounded like a fallen [...]

Like two sumo wrestlers, the United States and Japan are locked in another trade dispute. We can expect a lot of programmed grunting and grappling by these two world-class economic [...]

This week, visiting Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal will be wined and dined by President Reagan to celebrate the ties between Turkey's 'democratic' government and the United States. Just before [...]

The convert plays a favored part in social history and ideological drama. Armed with the certainty of revelation, the authority of confession and the conviction of sin, the convert leaps [...]

Alea was right on the button in 1968, when bourgeois existence bumped into revolutionary history around the world on campus, rue and rice paddy; when style and substance clashed in [...]

Not one of the current spate of fantasy epics achieves classic stature, but a few have considerable charm, originality and wit. The best is Starman, John Carpenter's yuppie update of [...]

Forgettable for so many reasons, Akron, Ohio, is nevertheless memorable as the seedbed of devolution theory and practice in America. It was there that the sadosynthetic rock group Devo began [...]

Repression is a personal problem that is also a public issue. Harvey Milk, the San Francisco city supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone in 1978, lived and [...]

Brian De Palma stands, or rather lies, in the great tradition of self-destructive filmmakers who cannot help but kill the thing they love: their movies. With anmimal abandon, he tears [...]

Every so often, Bloomingdale's runs an elaborate promotion that involves re-creating an exotic locale inside its cavernous confines, the better to sell the clothes and cosmetics of another culture to [...]

John Sayles make movies to scale--or is it movies to go? Alongside the vast supermarket of Hollywood epics, blockbusters and high-concept product, his cinema of convenience is sparsely stocked with [...]

David Webster took me to tea in the garden of an absurdly genteel hotel on a hill above Johannesburg, near the University of the Witwatersrand 'Wits'- where he taught. It [...]

Focuses on the relevance of the street-fighting that took place at the Stonewall in Greenwich Village, New York in 1969. Cause of the fight between the homosexuals and the police; Impact of the rioting on the liberation of the homosexuals; Social significance of the event.

Presents letters to the editor. Discussion about the article "John F. Kennedy's Legacy," by Andrew Kopkind; Information about the anti-communism drive by John F. Kennedy.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing topics and articles discussed in previous issues. Focus on the Dukakis-Bentsen campaign. State Democratic apparatchiks were excluded from Dukakis's counsel in all its stages from summer into autumn; Comment on Mikhail Gorbachev's insistence on "reasonable sufficiency" as a guideline for Soviet defense spending, replacing the goal of superiority and even parity.