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...greater influence in the Reagan camp. And last week the congressional leaders persuaded Reagan to limit for now his for mal proposal of Kemp-Roth to the first year's 10% cut. "Don't go for the second and third year," argued New York's Barber Conable, ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. "The press will aggregate it, come up with a big figure, and make it look awful...
...Higher!"? Or the virtuoso who appeared onstage with the Orchestre National de France and the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, the rosette of the Légion d'Honneur pinned in his lapel, and tossed off the feat of playing 15 major works, from Mozart to Samuel Barber, during a sequence of eight concerts...
...tribals first demanded money, then corralled the Bengalis in the village market. The horrified settlers were forced to watch while tribesmen armed with guns, spears and heavy scythes called daos put the torch to dwellings and butchered their occupants. "There was blood everywhere," says Haradhem Seal, 20, a Bengali barber whose entire family-parents, three brothers and three sisters -were murdered. "One man hacked at me with his dao. I collapsed, then several bodies fell on top of me. That was probably what saved...
...acceptance of male cosmetics is the surge in male facials. At Georgette Klinger's mirror-and-chrome emporium on Manhattan's Madison Avenue, men now account for 20% of business. All day long a stream of admen, lawyers and bankers settle back in plush barber chairs to have their faces anointed and cleansed with an exotic array of creams, masks and steam baths...
With the decline of parties and the Establishment, says Barber, the media are today's true kingmakers, capable of savaging or salvaging a candidacy with a few well-chosen words. Such criticism of the press, not altogether new, is not altogether convincing either. Though the press has indisputably become part of the political process that it reports, it is no more than one element in that process...