Word: easier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take any relish in making him look incompetent. I'm despondent these days." Peters finds Mondale an "extremely nice guy, but he's dull. I'm probably going to vote for him, but for a cartoonist Nixon or Reagan makes life a lot easier...
...Conrad calls Irish, almost horsy. Peters at an earlier stage emphasized the wrinkles but "got tired of drawing 400 lines" and discovered "you can put a pompadour on anything and it becomes Reagan." Herblock established the memorable Nixon look-furtive, hunched over, 5 o'clock shadow-but goes easier on his present adversary: Reagan is a "pretty good-looking guy." As cartoonists, they all seem grateful for the mobility in Reagan's face. Mike Peters currently sees Reagan as a "Cheshire cat-he's there, but he's not there." As Oliphant draws him, "his eyes...
...says his apartment was trashed you can't call the KGB to get comment. I had to relearn things when I moved on to Israel, which is obviously a different situation. People say it's hard to work in the Soviet Union but there are certain things which are easier...
Brookings' Alice Rivlin to both Reagan and Mondale: I urge you to take quick and bold action on the deficit. It is actually one of the easier problems you face. I would then urge you to shift to harder problems like Third World development and getting an arms-control agreement with the Soviets. These issues are much more important than the deficit...
Many of the new breaking products are intended to make the acrobatics easier on the knees and skull. Most break dancers do their gyrations on cardboard retrieved from supermarket dumpsters or on sheets of linoleum. Early in September, though, a California toy company called Koki rolled out a 4½-ft.-sq. polyvinyl dance mat designed especially for breaking. Price: $18. The company is promoting the mats with a $1 million TV ad campaign, and hopes to sell 500,000 by Christmas. Orders are already tumbling in from K mart stores across the country. Tucked inside the packages will...