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...Rostenkowski has already warned the Administration that his committee will not take up new "consumer taxes" this session. Speaker of the House Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. of Massachusetts last week endorsed the tough stand, saying that Democrats would not help the Administration out of its budget bind until the President admitted that his program was a failure...
Hedding added that people can overcome these fears, saying, "Compassion, love, kindness and understanding are the things that can bind the human race together...
After all, there are few ties besides ideology that bind the CCA and the leftist tenant movement. One is predominantly rich and white; the other includes many lower and middle income residents, and many Blacks and Hispanics. One is fashionable; the other isn't. (Abt, dressed to the nines, looked distinctly out of place amid the blue jeans that dominated the tenant forum.) And when the CCA is liberal, it is because its members are looking out for others. The tenants will stay radical; they're looking out for themselves. Even the bridges between the two groups are tenuous. Though...
...mocks all social codes as shams that bind the will. When he steals Dona Elvira (Frances Conroy) from the convent to be his wife and then abandons her, he mocks vows made to God and to fidelity. He protests undying love and proffers marriage to two peasant girls (Kristine Nielsen and Hillary Bailey) merely as bait for the gullible. He mocks his fellow aristocrats by tripping them up in the niceties of codes of honor, and his aged father (John E. Straub) by an icy disdain for filial piety...
...outbursts "disjunctive interruptions" and suggests they have nothing to do with egotism or intolerance. "In fact, the old people have little choice," he says. "They can follow each statement, but they get muddled as to the theme, because they lose track of who said what." Once caught in that bind, an oldster has limited options: he or she can always launch a new monologue or simply sit there and let the other monologues...