Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tess, gives an admirable performance. Though the sexual theme holds great potential for creating vivid, powerful characters, Irena could be played by a stuffed animal. The audience, primed with Cinderella fairytales and pubescent fantasies, already knows Irena's conflict. And so director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Hardcore. Blue Collar) uses his characters as no more than props...
...that new sewing machine/ Secondhand clothes, I'm wearing secondhand clothes/ I sure hope Ed Meese sews." Among those cheering in the audience was Husband Ronald Reagan, 71, who laughed harder than anyone else, it seemed, when his wife accompanied the lines "Even my trench coat with fur collar/ Ronnie bought for ten cents on the dollar/ The china is the only thing that's new" by smashing a replica of a White House china plate on the floor...
Answers to the second-term question provided fresh evidence of the President's current weakness in the Northeast and Midwest, especially among blue-collar workers and union members. In these constituencies, the preference that Reagan not seek re-election corresponded roughly with the nationwide figures, while professionals and executives were evenly divided on the question. Even in the South and West, where Reagan's appeal is strongest, slight majorities of the voters preferred that he not seek a second term...
...either outright wish fulfillment or a portrait of a whole other America, featuring people far more buoyant and bullish than would seem possible in the midst of a deepening recession. In Pittsburgh Kahn found unemployment, to be sure, but also a labor force with half again as many white-collar workers as blue, an economic fact of life that has helped to cushion the deepening industry-wide slump in steel orders. In Houston (". . . the only place on earth where I have heard 'trillion' used in casual conversation ...") he learned that there are more branches of foreign banks than...
Marks assailed "a President and his cronies whose belief in Hooverism has blinded them to the wretchedness and to the suffering they are inflicting." He ticked off those whom he considers the victims of Reaganomics, including "the sick, the poor, the handicapped, the blue-collar and white-collar workers, the small business person, the black community, women of all economic and social backgrounds, men and women who desperately need job training, families that deserve and desire the right to send their children to college; in fact, anyone and everyone, other than those who have been fortunate enough to insulate themselves...