Word: comes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monetarists are in control, and they have tied President Carter's hands as well. He couldn't come up with an anti-inflation policy of his own that businessmen wouldn't laugh at, so he's stuck with Volcker's by default. And we will suffer, in the coming months, through the recession that will, undoubtedly, cause the "drop in living standards" Volcker and businessmen everywhere prattle about, with all the compassion of a Hammurabi...
...Enterprise high school students, labeled "potential dropouts" by counselors, come to the co-op, located on Broadway opposite the Ringe and Latin School, with histories of discipline problems and truancy and, in some cases, police records...
...even that event will probably be transmogrified into comedy. For in Brooks' philosophy, laughter is the only effective painkiller available without a doctor's prescription. "If I were dying in a hospital of a terminal disease," says Taxi Star Judd Hirsch, "I would want Jim Brooks to come in and direct me on how to die. I'm pretty sure he would come up with something positive...
Different folks paint with different strokes. But that is no reason why a 20th century artist like Andrew Wyeth should not come to the aid of an 18th century portrait painter like Gilbert Stuart. To buoy Bostonians who are trying to raise $2.5 million by year's end to keep Stuart's famous paintings of George and Martha Washington from eloping to the National Portrait Gallery in that other Washington, Wyeth came down from Maine to contribute to Boston's "Save Our Stuarts" campaign. The guru of Chadd's Ford even posed, check in hand, with...
...entrails to zoo animals. Henry Morton Stanley said he was beset on all sides by savage cannibals during his famous trek through Africa to find Livingstone. Margaret Mead wrote about the man-eating Mundugumor of New Guinea. There is only one thing wrong with all these reports: they come second or third hand, and are probably false. That is the surprising thesis of a new book called The Man-Eating Myth by Anthropologist William Arens, who believes cannibalism may never have existed anywhere as a regular custom...