Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brian Smiar, as Gloucester the other betrayed father, has no specific fallings, but lacks the air of nobility which should add extra bitterness to his fall. The same deficiency appears in Arthur Strimling's Kent; Strimling plays a servant, rather than a nobleman playing a servant. That complexity is crucial to the role of Kent, since in a class-conscious Elizabethan context, Kent's willingness to humble himself gives the most extreme proof of his devotion to Lear...
...point out that Washington has not extended the courtesy since 1978. Reagan expressed cautious optimism that a session with Gromyko might lift some of the "suspicion and hostility" that have lately poisoned U.S.-Soviet relations and "maybe convince him that the U.S. means no harm." He hardly needed to add that the chance to be seen shaking hands with Gromyko in the White House Oval Office could reap rich political dividends for himself. Such statesmanlike vignettes could only provide voters with a comforting counterpoint to his recurrent image as a diplomatic gunslinger...
...surcharge. Couples with adjusted gross incomes above $100,000, and single taxpayers earning more than $70,000, would figure their tax liability under Mondale's new rate schedule, then add...
...polls "the best single indicator in any state" of overall G.O.P. electoral chances. Reagan is taking every opportunity to tie his candidacy to those of other G.O.P. office seekers. Says a key House Republican campaign aide: "Should Ronald Reagan win in a landslide, but we fail to add to our numbers in the House, the Reagan revolution is over...
...PECULIAR and insular category of literature known as "Harvard novels," prepare to add another to the sub-group of books about Radcliffe. Superior Women is representative of the genre but somewhat better because Alice Adams '46 appears to have no pretensions about her aims. Early on, the 'Cliffies recognize their resemblance to the typical group of girls who inhabited certain novels of the 1940s. And certainly they're stereotypical enough--the problem is that, whether Adams intended it or not, they never quite manage to become more than that...