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...unlike others of their ilk, these two learned the merits of flexibility--a little-recognized characteristic of the New Right. It is, of course, opportunism, not dogmatism, that gives the Right its bite, and Thurmond and Helms are specialists at tailoring their positions to rightwing fashions. Thurmond may perform octogenerian calisthetics, and Helms may run off his mouth in seemingly candid ways, but the iconoclasm is a put-on. Both are skilled professionals when it comes to pushing the panic buttons on issues like the Panama Canal, gun control and the ERA. And both know that while race...
...Texas outlaw hero, can take his place alongside Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou, John Wayne in True Grit and Jason Robards in The Ballad of Cable Hogue. A good-hearted rogue with slovenly personal habits, Moon is the essence of frontier vulgarity. He gobbles meals in a single bite, guzzles booze as if it were mother's milk and addresses women with a courtliness so exaggerated that it comes out obscene. Nicholson's repertoire of dumb grins and crazed laughs is as amusing as ever, but what makes the characterization take off is his monomaniacal concentration. Nicholson understands...
Brown-haired, blue-eyed Jason White looks like any sturdy, active, eight-year-old boy. But Jason is different; he cannot eat a bite of food. Ever since doctors removed his diseased stomach and part of his intestines five years ago, he has been fed almost entirely by vein, and seemed destined to spend his remaining years in hospitals. Now, outfitted with a newly designed life-giving vest, Jason is living at home and thriving...
...best. Whether there is substantially more gas available or not, however, the fact remains that it will go only to those consumers who can afford to pay the higher prices. The bill is sure to compound consumer burdens to the breaking point, since energy costs and inflation already bite heavily into the family incomes of lower- and middle-class consumers...
...worth $20,000 at today's levels has seen its effective federal income-tax rate rise from 12.4 per cent in 1968 to 16.2 per cent today, Roth said. And by 1983, if current trends continue and the family continues to receive pay increases to match inflation, the tax bite will climb to 20.2 per cent, he added...