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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white flag," Mondale--no doubt eyeing the prospects of AFL-CIO endorsement before the Democratic primaries--has been proclaiming in union halls recently, "when we should be running up the American flag." With Senate tough guys John Glenn, Fritz Hollings, and Alan Crimson, he is backing the Domestic Content Bill--a disastrous projectionist measure design to shut foreign-made cars out of the American market...

Author: By David V. Thottungal, | Title: Auto-Immunity | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

...Mondale himself, however, recovery of the American auto industry will require leaving the trade barriers in place for a decade or more, regardless of whatever concessions we can wring from the rest of the world. To suppose that other countries won't retaliate--as proponents of the Domestic Content Bill insist--is ludicrous. The dollars that Americans spend on Japanese cars are ultimately spent by the Japanese on American exports. If we stop importing their cars, they will undoubtedly prevent us from exporting something else (whatever threatens their own industries most) and our growing, successful industries will suffer. A Congressional...

Author: By David V. Thottungal, | Title: Auto-Immunity | 2/24/1983 | See Source »

...forte, and people begin to shout at the actors in mid song and mid dialogue "Funnler. Louder!" one person yells. "You're so sexy great legs, Rick!" shouts out another Moments later. "Take it off" becomes a back-row rallying cry. another patron with high alcoholic content loudly observes to Gustave that he is fat. But the overriding chant is Rick-line!" The audience is turned on by a long and superbly choreographed lead-in to the show's footwork finale, and 12 Holyoke St. shakes when the hirsute legs...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/23/1983 | See Source »

...vast array of reheated gimmicks from other movies but still lacking a satisfying main course. This latest Hollywood release stars Dudley Moore as another New York psychiatrist who falls in love with his lovely neurotic patient (Elizabeth McGovern) to the accompaniment of innumerable cute gimmicky scenes. In both content and style, the material proves merely a rehash of past comedies, romantic comedies, and comedies about psychiatry...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Heartburn | 2/22/1983 | See Source »

...have webbed toes, a Russian trawler officer who paddles in to play the stock market when the fish are running near a capitalist land mass, and a hotel manager who is also a shrewd accountant and a demon lover. The minister here abouts is a black African quite content to be wildly displaced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scotch Broth | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

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