Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hauptman distributes juicy one-liners with admirable magnanimity (a prostitute recalling her decision to hit the street says "I realized I was sitting on a gold mine"). Hauptman's generosity keep the laughs rolling, but at the cost of reducing his characters to sitcom personalities. Hauptman's attempts to add a few moments of drama completely collapse; characters who whip out quips at the pace of a Noel Coward cannot carry a dramatic scene...
These liberals--the Eastern media establishment in particular--have had it in for our President for a long time. Not only does Ron have a limited attention span, but, they add, when he does focus what little attention he has, he comes up with crazy harebrained schemes. A prime example is his Star Wars proposal--the lunatic concept that we could protect ourselves from unclear missiles simply by zapping them out of the sky with laser beams and the like...
...arguing the possibility of East-West collaboration, despite the ongoing competition that he labels the Third World war, he sensibly observes, "While the Soviets want the world, they do not want war." To critics who say that strengthening Third World economies will only add to the competitive pressure on American industry, he points out that the best current customers for U.S. products are industrialized Canada and Japan. In an inspirational final summons to "a peaceful revolution for progress in the Third World," Nixon brings back to mind the far-seeing foreign policy analyst whom Watergate, and Viet Nam, destroyed...
TAKE A CLASSIC TALE of medieval love and romance, add a dash of Runyonesque comic relief, a soupcon of high-tech editing a jazzy MTV soundtrack and seal it with a magical spell and you've got Ladyhawke. This cinematic hodgepodge of seemingly incompatible elements really resolves itself into an eighties version of the Arthurian romance, replete with ladies fair and valiant men of arms...
Last night's action aimed to changer that, making committee absences add toward the total permitting. The allowable number was raised from three absences to four, form full weekly sessions or from committee meetings. New rules would also permit five absences from a combination of weekly and committee meetings before members are automatically expelled...