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...sometimes very funny. It also represents a waltz step toward popular acceptance by a performer tired of being worshiped by the few. Like former cult favorites Chevy Chase and Steve Martin, Tomlin has made a laff-a-minute movie that will offend nobody - except the comic's most ardent fans, who will buy tickets and then yell, "Sell...
...goes the list of potential cuts: the black book suggests reductions in federal aid to the arts, in support for public TV, in mass transit, in postal subsidies and in the space program, even though both Reagan and Stockman are ardent space buffs. Not even the most popular federal programs are spared. In the case of Social Security, the Administration would leave basic retirement benefits untouched. But it is considering scrapping the $122 minimum monthly benefit to retirees who have paid very little into the system and payments to students whose parents have died, as well as reductions in disability...
...consortium between the ice scream scoopers of Cahaly's has revealed the interesting fact that the HARVARD WOMEN's BASKETBALL TEAM remains their most ardent and consistent customers, coming in en masse virtually every evening for their usual ice cream fix, much like the hapless bar-frequenter who returns to his favorite watering hole for his usual stuff...
Ever since Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations in 1776, capitalism has been generally extolled as the most efficient economic system or as the philosophy most compatible with political liberty. But even capitalism's most ardent supporters have had trouble answering charges that it is morally bankrupt because it appeals to people's greed for profit. Forcefully confronting these charges, Gilder maintains that the entrepreneur is not a selfish accumulator of wealth but the creative figure in society, who uses his talents and capital in risky ventures that have no guarantee of reward. The businessman...
...Harrison Schmitt (R-N.M.)--once an ardent foe of registration and now a passive supporter of the program--says matter-of-factly, "It's not exactly the burning issue it once...