Word: bullheadedness
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House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas, like most Democrats, feels that Reagan has "painted himself into a corner" with his plan to cut taxes, increase defense spending, and still balance the budget by 1984. Wright argues that it is impossible to eliminate the projected total deficit over the next...
He was an odd sort of hero. A millionaire who often lived like a bum, sleeping in a closet with his clothes on-because he believed that taking them off promoted insomnia-and spitting on the floor even in his cherished laboratories. A picturesque swearer who hired assistants whom George...
With the machine against him, he does not stand much chance of winning the primary. It is the trouble he can cause that alarms the Democrats. As state's attorney, says a top Chicago politician, "Hanrahan knows where all the bodies are buried and where all the skeletons hang...
AMERICA AND AMERICANS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). From John Steinbeck's recent book of the same title comes this picture essay on the paradoxes of America "complicated, bullheaded, shy, cruel, boisterous, unspeakably dear and very beautiful." Henry Fonda narrates.
Moving in with the second wave of attacking troops, Cathy dodged machine-gun fire, clicked off frame after frame as she and the men scurried up the hill. She stopped long enough to record one particularly poignant sequence-a corpsman bending to help a wounded buddy, jerking upright in anguish...