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...campaigning, speechmaking and handshaking had never occurred, and those thousands of cloying or clawing television commercials and bumper stickers had never appeared. After an estimated outlay of some $130 million by Republican and Democratic candidates, the lineup of the Senate had not changed a bit. The breakdown remained 54 Republicans and 46 Democrats. The G.O.P. had feared that it might lose the chamber it had seized in 1980, or at least see its margin over the Democrats narrowed. "Needless to say," said Bob Packwood of Oregon, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, "I'm relieved...
...DANCING GIRLS does not depict a war between the sexes Atwood's theme is the breakdown of human communication, where men and women address each other like creatures from different planets. Atwood's characters bitterly avoid human contact, as if under some delusion of strength in solitude and weakness in numbers. This is the generation of impermanence--of childless marriages and unmarried couples who "live together" out of inertia. The threat of nuclear war hangs over them perennially. The men and women in Dancing Girls respond not to each other, but only to their inward selves and how they might...
...Tadeusz Grabski was circulated accusing the government of allowing Poland to slide into anarchy. Any new power struggle among Poland's Communists would not only jeopardize Jaruzelski's hold on power but make even worse the economic situation that government leaders themselves last week described as "a breakdown on an unprecedented scale...
Indeed, 48% of the people questioned said they intended to vote for their Democratic congressional candidates, while only 34% expected to pull the Republican lever. Other polls have shown the Democrats maintaining a roughly similar lead. But the figures are far from conclusive: they follow the approximate breakdown of party registration, and voters do not always let their instinctive party loyalty dictate their choice among candidates in their districts. Despite a general inclination to vote Democratic, 52% of the people in the Yankelovich poll said they expected to vote for their current Congressman, and only 30% intended to vote...
Tutor Harry J. Holzmer of Winthrop House is one of the first to use Sultan and Kang's guide for training. "It gives a very nice breakdown of the mileage," he says, adding. "It's hard to make any progress if you don't know how fast or how far you are running...