When the Mets were on their run in the 1980s, Gary Carter was often seen hugging somebody. It was easy to joke about that. The best hug of all was with Jesse Orosco at the end of the 1986 World Series.
I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.
Jesse Helms has never been an invincible man.
One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking.
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.
Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
