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...answer is yes. The leaders of the party agreed that we should start identifying even those who belong to the opposition who can be depended upon to swear that they would not allow Communism to take over the republic. There is no limit to the number, of course, of the members of the ruling party who aspire to the presidency. Many of them are highly qualified. I think it is a wise decision for the leadership not to speak of this kind of succession unless and until we are through with the 1986 and 1987 elections...
...program has made a high-speed chase up the record charts, selling more than 3 million copies in a month. Last week the record reached No. 1 on the Billboard magazine chart, propelled by two Top Ten singles, the instrumental Miami Vice Theme by Jan Hammer and You Belong to the City by Glenn Frey. While movie sound tracks like last summer's Beverly Hills Cop have become a proven music-industry formula, Miami Vice is the first No. 1 TV album since the Peter Gunn sound track...
Earlier this week the union--to which 280 Wellesley kitchen, custodial and construction workers belong--threatened to strike unless Wellesley offered more than its original 3.5 percent pay increase...
...coached on the set by no less an expert than Sally Ride, America's pioneer woman in space. "She's been like a friendly consultant," Capshaw says, and communicated particularly "the determination, the fears and the passions" of astronauts. Ride thinks that one kind of passion does not yet belong in zero gravity, though. Responding to a question during an appearance at a women's conference in Milwaukee last week, Ride said she and her astronaut husband have no desire to be the first couple in space...
Brookner re-creates the world of the immigrant high bourgeoisie with convincing selectivity. Its style and manners are indistinguishably British, with only a hint that the Dorns, apparently Jewish, belong to a community within a community. The characters are defined largely through their social behavior. Sofka: "A shy woman, virtuous and retiring, caring only for her % children, but determined to fulfil her role as duenna, as figurehead, as matriarch. This means presentation, panache, purpose and, in their train, dignity and responsibility; awesome concepts, borne permanently in mind." Alfred: "If he translates his predicament into fiction, if he views...