Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pennsylvania Avenue to the other. Whatever the situation -- the unprecedented opportunity to promote democracy in Eastern Europe, the spreading plague of drugs, the plight of the underclass, the urgent need for educational reform -- the typical response from Washington consists of encouraging words and token funds. Yet voters, especially the better-organized ones, continue to demand -- and often receive -- more benefits and services while rejecting higher taxes...
...Government must do something. That is why it exists: to act in ways that improve the lives of its citizens and their security in the world. The list of missed opportunities and ignored challenges is already much too long. The sooner Government sets about doing its job again, the better...
AUGUST SNOW. Revered novelist Reynolds Price debuts a trilogy at the Cleveland Play House (titles of the other works: Night Dance and Better Days...
...musicianship. He's just a guy supporting his offscreen wife, kids and mortgage in a way he finds more congenial than, say, selling aluminum siding. Banality is a hair shirt for Jack. His life is all squalid improvisation and silent disgust at tinkling out "piano stylings." He knows better, and he might do better, as a jazzman...
...setting where actors can live and breathe like real people, and the Bridges boys are better than fabulous in it -- Jeff not quite falling over the line into unredeemable cynicism, Beau never succumbing to the pull of moral blandness. Pfeiffer, who does her own singing, is a cat with at least nine dimensions ever aflicker in her eyes...