Word: breather
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there lies the trouble. After guiding the lives of such outspoken, '60s-scarred characters as Joanie Caucus, B.D., Uncle Duke, and his own alter ego, Michael J. Doonesbury, through some 4,300 cartoon strips, Trudeau, 34, thinks it is time to refill the inkwell. "I need a breather," he confesses. "Investigative cartooning is a young man's game." Though the cartoonist will be off from the beginning of next year through the fall of 1984, he is not really abandoning the residents of the Walden Puddle Commune, just fiddling with them. "It's time to give them...
Only when he was safely atop the Silverthorn Ice Corridor of 11,452-ft. Mount Athabasca in Alberta could Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 62, finally take a breather during his vacation. He has been on a two-week cross-country trip in a private railway car, and from the start in Vancouver the Prime Minister was met at virtually every stop along the way by picketers, protesters and assorted Trudeauphobes, who screamed obscenities and lustily pelted his railway car with eggs and tomatoes. Particularly annoyed by out-of-work demonstrators at Salmon Arm, B.C., Trudeau responded before TV cameras...
...freeze on the arms race would let each side take a breather from its dash toward the elusive goal of mutually assured destruction: It has been a long time since we and the Russians did not have to worry about building and deploying nuclear arms. Who knows? We might actually enjoy having billions of extra dollars available to provide for education, health care, and environmental clean-up. Moreover, it is just possible that, by providing both sides the new experience of not racing, a freeze could produce the psychological breakthrough needed to case growing mutual suspicion. And for those...
...Zucker does, after all, occasionally have to go offstage to take a breather. Why does that silly papier-mache horsehead keep bounding up to the audience? Why is one fellow sitting on a straw-stack on the edge of the stage, strumming an unidentifiable instrument and looking so mellow that spectators two rows back started betting on when he would fall asleep? Why does Dr. Paradisio (Tamara Jenkins) keep screaming at both real and imaginary audiences about the healing powers of ga-a-a-a-arglin' oil? Why on earth does one actress spend a full half-hour...
...Breaks of the Game, Halberstam's splendid new book, comes as a sort of breather after its two mammoth predecessors--The Best and the Brightest, his magnificent study of how arrogance bred disaster in Vietnam, and The Powers That Be, his un-magnificent but still good investigation of the modern media empires. To his credit, Halberstam realizes that basketball, for all its symbolic and actual importance, is not the metaphor for contemporary America. Halberstam's humility, at least about his subject, comes as a welcome surprise...