Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film, which spans almost three decades, traces Shirley's life from a teenage drag racer to a world champion car driver Shirley (Bonnie Bedelia) grows up in Schenectady, N.Y. developing a passion for racing cars early in her life. The film opens beautifully, in black and white as Shirley climbs into the lap of her father (Hoyt Axton) and steers the family car through the windy roads of upstate New York Shirley marries her high school beau Jack (Leo Rossi) and starts racing cars to earn extra money. Soon the family is spending weekends driving to races with...
...front runner was so sure of success that he could let his minions mop up while he moved on to the next event. Hart, meanwhile, was shaking every New Hampshire hand in sight. On Monday he drew such a huge entourage of television crews on Elm Street, the main drag of Manchester, that pedestrians were forced to cross the street to avoid the crush. Earlier, in Concord, he drew hundreds of enthusiastic supporters to an outdoor rally in Eagle Square Mall...
...added tax (VAT), a form of national sales levy that is used in most West European nations. Even if housing, food and medical care were exempted, a 5% VAT would yield $60 billion a year. Such taxes, of course, would take money from consumers' pockets and be a drag on growth...
MORE REFRESHING than all this is that the yuks betray an intelligent pattern or two. Taylor and Calnek aren't so dumb as to take themselves or the show seriously (a Battle of the Sexes satire in drag?), but they abandon the sterile money/sex/class warfare formula of recent years for some genuinely fresh jabs at popular culture. TV commercial references abound--"This is mutiny, men!" "Yeah, it'll take more than Bounty to clean up this mess." Missionary Position's Sun Myung Moon-esque paradise turns out to be McDonald's, with the preacher at his pulpit dispensing McNuggets...
...instead, the President seems bent on allowing this act of fate to drag relations with the Soviets not forward, but back to the starting gate. And fate promises to relieve the Administration of the necessity of proving conciliatory in the election year to come, to muffle the bad press resulting from having presided over the worst level of Soviet-American relations in recent history Circumstance has offered the Administration a convenient way out which they seem inclined to follow, even at the risk of losing a rare chance to open a better route...