Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between these two incidents, Woody Allen offers brief, casually brilliant parodies of radio performers and formats: an inspirational sports storyteller modeled on Bill Stern; a smarmy counselor like Mr. Anthony; and, of course, a superhero for boys, the "Masked Avenger." The slender thread holding this part of the movie together recounts the rise from cigarette girl to airwaves gossip star of Sally White (played with her customary comic poignance by Mia Farrow...
...circles. But every now and then all the birds wing in tight formation to the same destination. It happened last year on tax reform and drug legislation. As the 100th Congress gets to work, the flock is forming early. This time its goal is to pass a trade bill, one that, for a change, will not be shot down by President Reagan's veto...
Nonetheless, Wright pledges to call up a trade bill for House floor debate in May, and the Senate is working on a similar schedule. In the interest of getting something on the books, the Democrats, who control both chambers, are backing away from the protectionist provisions that caused Free-Trader Reagan to block previous bills...
...dispute is that the President will stress the need to restore U.S. "competitiveness." He plans to propose some form of retraining for workers, a loosening of antitrust laws to enable American companies to band together against foreign competition, and increased federal assistance to American research and development. Ohio Congressman Bill Gradison, a key Republican on the House Budget Committee, says the President's aides "have judged that there will be a trade bill and signaled their willingness to cooperate...
...Petits Riens, Calcium Light Night, Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, Eight Easy Pieces -- he is an agile craftsman with some surprising moves and a dry, idiosyncratic drollery. At other times he can be boring and even awkward, uneasy in filling the stage and expanding it. Premiering on the same bill as Les Petits Riens was a futile exercise called Ecstatic Orange, set to a bombinating neo-Stravinsky score by Michael Torke...