Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drive's first stage--which canvassed 12 major U.S. cities for donations from individuals, corporations and foundations--has been "very encouraging," Glimp said, but still must attract one $15 million and two $10 million donations...
...BEGINNING of Talley's Folly, it looks like Lanford Wilson has set out to illustrate a most commonplace idea: that opposites attract. The two characters that comprise his cast start at the antipodes of American society. Matt Friedman is a Lithuanian Jewish accountant, gray suit, beard and wire glasses, Mittel-European accent and Henny Youngman-style jokes. Sally Talley springs from a factory-owning Ozark tamily, works as a nurse in an army hospital (it's 1944) and has a jaw locked as tight as a cashbox. The two are not a very probable couple...
...Democrats' plan was designed to attract both liberals, who worry that Reagan's cuts in such programs as food stamps and Medicaid would grievously hurt the poor, and conservatives, who are fearful of a tide of red ink stemming from the President's proposed tax slashes. Republicans promptly assailed the program as the product of some highly questionable arithmetic. Nonetheless, the House Budget Committee last week voted 17 to 13 to reject Reagan's spending and revenue estimates and substitute a set prepared by Chairman James Jones of Oklahoma, the principal architect of the counterbudget. Noted...
...worth seeing--if you want to rid yourself once and for all of any desire to visit the Las Vegas of the East. In Malle's nightmarish portrait, it's a city that can never change; no matter how much filth it accumulates, it will always be able to attract a little more...
...radio Wars' producers even recruited two members of the original cast for the series, Mark Hamill playing Luke and Anthony Daniels giving his inimitable English accent to Threepio. If Star Wars is a success, National Public Radio believes it may attract a whole new audience to radio drama, which was an entertainment staple until television displaced...