Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been slimed." (Scene; battle in Europe, dead friend laying in mud.) "The guy was a slob. Ever see him eat? Starving children could fill their bellies on the food he left on his beard...
While Mondale's appeal is immeasurably strengthened by the dead-end approach implict in a continuation of the Reagan Revolution, it stands on its own as compassionate and responsible economic policy. Mondale would restore the cuts in social spending. He would pay for these social obligations to the poor, the sick, and the elderly through, mainly, a forthright pruning of the Pentagon budget and a plan for modest tax increases. Mondale's deficits reduction plans are not without their problems, but at least he has plans, which is more than can be said of Reagan...
...argue with President Reagan's remarkable string of successes. Our economy is now in the midst of the most powerful growth since the aftermath of World War II, due largely to the Keynesian tax out politics Reagan shepherded through Congress. Inflation was stopped dead in its tracks neat the 3 percent level a feat most economists predicted would take a decade or more. The unemployment rate has dropped steadily. The country has shaken off the national malaise that the Carter-Alondale Administration created to explain its own failings. The last majority of Americans would answer a resounding...
...gleaming Margard floor as if they were skating on a frozen ebony pond. Through the translucent bower at stage rear we can see the sky swirling madly with birds, fireflies and what looks like a red UFO as the carping lovers lead their fellows in a dashing waltz. The "dead" Hero stands behind a huge golden mandala; in front, monks move to the sweet melancholy of a torchlight dirge...
...gags, however earthbound, raise laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy the human opposites only art can reconcile. By the end of the evening a friar can dance with a wench, and the dead come back to life, and lovers banter until they fall into each other's arms at dawn...