Volume 31, Number 12 · July 19, 1984
A Hard Case
By Murray Kempton
Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo: The Campaign for Governor
Random House, 484 pp., $19.95
To the governor of New York, language is a device for making oneself look better than one probably is. To the mayor of New York, language is a device for making oneself look worse than one could possibly be. The governor would seem to have entered upon the third of his wrestlings with the mayor with the advantage of intention. Charm would not belong among the absolute virtues if it were not the product of unwearying effort to keep one's bad side out of sight.
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