Running on Empty

Written by John Ellis on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Sen. John McCain is foredoomed. It’s not that he isn’t an attractive candidate. In many ways, he is. It’s just that his candidacy’s core constituency is the press. He has no base. Let me say up front that Texas Gov. George W. Bush is my first cousin and a good friend. One might argue that
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Kinder Power: “Children of Berlin” at P.S. 1

Written by Christian Viveros-Faune on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The low rumble emitting from across the Atlantic first made itself audible as the now-canonical YBA rave. Following quickly on the heels of London’s success, perennially furrowed German brows unloosed and set free a depression-defying, nearly celebratory atmosphere. New York, to date a conceited wallflower at the youthful, alternative dance (mainly because Manhattan as yet
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Why’s It So Hard to Cook in New York?

Written by Andrey Slivka on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

The rat situation of this block of W. 108th St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Ave., is surreal. Or it used to be. You’d see dozens of the rodents every time you walked down the block late enough at night. Scores if you were some student waiting in the glow of a streetlamp in a furtive
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Hungry for Suck

Written by None - Do not Delete on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Or should open. Our experience with restaurants opening when they say they will is that they rarely do. Still, this sounds impressive: a new design by David Scheffer, who’s responsible for Moomba and Veruka; a chef who used to work at Harvest and Universal Grill; a general manager from Cafeteria; and so on. The chairs
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Flyoverrated

Written by Christopher Caldwell on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

These numbers may portend real momentum for McCain, or they may indicate a mere two-state boomlet. (My guess would be: real momentum.) But they certainly vindicate McCain’s most daring strategic decision to date: to sit out Iowa altogether. His success may mean the end of the Iowa caucuses as a meaningful presidential barometer. Good riddance.
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The Greatest Toy Story Ever Told

Written by J.R. Taylor on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Norman Rockwell is great, but that R. Cobb cartoon may be my favorite portrait of Americana. It’s not just touching. The cartoon is also brave. Surrounded by hippies who loathed Christmas, Cobb was still willing to use this important holiday to preach a simple truth. It still holds up today. Hey, kids of all colors,
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The Candidates Play the Authenticity Game

Written by David Corn on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

than in 1992, when those who bothered to vote desperately wanted someone to lead the country out of the recession (never mind that it was already ending). The ’00 contestants are endeavoring to be all-whatever. Yet there’ve been a few snags. Bill Bradley has been hawking himself as the non-packaged politician, a down-to-earth fellow with
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Mugged In Public

Written by C.J. Sullivan on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Mike’s parents were apprehensive about Mike’s attending Hunter because of the hour-plus commute from their home. But the Manhattan school has a good reputation, so they figured why not. Mike leaves home at 6:45 a.m. and takes a bus and then a train to get to the school’s Upper East Side campus. And no matter
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Mary, Mother of JFK

Written by John Strausbaugh on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Her celebrity notwithstanding, I can’t say I was happy to see the Blessed Mother take time off from her constant schedule of personal appearances in Old Catholic regions around the world–an unstinting service to humanity for which she’s treated to the worst calumny from godless blackguards of the Christopher Hitchens stripe–to appear on NBC in
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An MTA Strike?

Written by Jim Knipfel on November 30, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Among their strategies, the TWU hired hard-nosed labor consultant Ray Rogers (who recently led the union fight against Hormel), and asked union members to distribute a million fliers around the city, which explain how the MTA is bilking commuters–and workers–out of millions, while they themselves are pulling in record profits. "The transit system is the
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