Gore’s Defining Downfall Moment

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

There are moments in presidential campaigns that we later look back upon and say: That was when it became obvious that candidate such-and-such had no chance of becoming the nation’s top dog. Recall Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis helmeted and riding in a tank. Uncomfortable smile. Looked like Snoopy. The election could have been canceled the
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Beau Jest

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

And yet several good restaurants persist in celebrating the wine’s annual arrival. This year the stuff hits stores on Nov. 17, and L’Express, Les Halles and Tout Va Bien will all mobilize–as has become customary–at the stroke of midnight on that special day. L’Express: a prix fixe dinner, paired with overpublicized wine. Les Halles: live
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The Jesus Orgy

Written by Laura Moser on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Now, I’ve gone to black churches and gospel concerts throughout the South (to hear stirring renditions of "This Little Light of Mine" and "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and to reflect on the comparative dead-dullness of the thousands of bar mitzvahs I’ve dozed through), but yesterday’s service was of an entirely different caliber. It was
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Gore & Bradley: Same Cola, Different Bottles

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

At the town hall meeting, both men played their parts well, yet there are reasons to be skeptical of each. After serving in the Campaign-Funds-R-Us Clinton administration, Gore is hardly credible as a champion for change on that front. Bradley keeps promoting his big, bold ideas–ending racial discord, vanquishing child poverty–but his 18 years in
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Killer Food

Written by Lionel Tiger on . Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Some of the action stems from an expanded concept of The Neighborhood Pharmacy into a modified supermarket selling milk to nuts to fans to sniffers, Prozac and medicated smears. Some reason also must be the implacable growth in medical expenditure and drug costs, hand in hand with the increasing number of codgers who require expensive
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Field Guide to Disneyland

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

The resulting hyper-busy images, "a flip-flop between representation and abstraction," Tomaselli calls them, are sent bounding over the top by acknowledgment of their essential medium. That medium is drugs, pure and simple. Encased inside each of Tomaselli’s thickly resinated "rectangles of utopia" it’s possible to find anything from prosaic aspirin to perfectly serrated leaves of
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