Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Norman Mailer and plugs him as "a serious writer except when he is thinking, and the trouble is that over his long career he has been thinking a very great deal." Perhaps to quote such provocative thrashings is to suggest an intemperate, flailing harangue, but every round-house blow is prepared-with deft, critical jabs and well-documented proof of delinquency...
Indeed, according to many experts in the field, a well-financed group could build one that could fit into a pickup truck or a station wagon. In fact, the U.S. military has developed a 58-lb. bomb powerful enough to blow up the Golden Gate Bridge. Part of the problem is that the principles of bomb building are well known. In fact, the basic elements of the technology can be found in reference works like the Encyclopedia Americana. The trick is to place two slugs of plutonium close together in a container similar to a gun barrel, then smash...
...just fine with Director Ritchie, whose best work (Smile, The Bad News Bears) is acutely observant of manners and morals on every rung of the American ladder. Here everything from the way members treat servants at a posh tennis club to direct-mail advertising receives a glancing satiric blow from his camera. Even the car chase in Fletch is witty and believable and something an adult can attend without flinching. As the adolescent revels of summer wear on, that alone could make it a movie to cherish...
...drive up rents as well. Taxpayers can now deduct state and ; local taxes from their federal returns. To the outrage of politicians from high-tax states, this break would be wiped out by the Reagan plan, thus saving the Treasury $22 billion a year. By delivering "a really crushing blow" to New Yorkers, charges Governor Mario Cuomo, Reagan is attempting "governmental euthanasia...
...sides were equally unyielding on other issues. Shultz repeated American demands for a Soviet apology for the March 24 killing of U.S. Army Major Arthur Nicholson Jr. and reminded Gromyko of "how these incidents blow our relationship off course." Although the Soviets seemed to acknowledge Shultz's lecture on the Nicholson killings, Gromyko turned icy when the Secretary of State chastised him for Moscow's treatment of dissidents like Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who, along with his wife Yelena Bonner, has been exiled to the isolated city of Gorky. Soviet sources indicate that Sakharov went on a five-day hunger strike...