Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seriously, he professed to find the Treasury Secretary's attack "quite amazing. I can't understand it." In fact, the two have long been at odds, though their differences have usually been expressed by a backstage elbow in the ribs rather than a public fist in the eye. Feldstein takes a far gloomier view of huge federal deficits than Regan does, and last week he annoyed the White House by saying as much in discussing forthcoming budget talks with Democrats. Said Feldstein, putting his cards on the table before the game even began: "We're going...
Even not counting their first-time allocations for accrued retirement pay, the services put in for eye-popping increases. The Air Force asked for $104.3 billion, an increase of 21%. The Navy claimed $96.7 billion, an 18% boost. The Army, the services' poor boy for the 14th straight year, requested $72 billion, up 15%. With the higher budgets came proposed boosts in enlistments: 15,000 for the Air Force (to 610,000), 10,000 for the Navy (to 575,000), 3,000 for the Marines (to 200,000), and 1,000 for the Army...
Though he has acted in movies before (such as portraying the farmer in the poignant but relatively unknown film Days of Heaven, Shepard came into the public eye when he played Chuck Yeager in the film rendition of the Tom Wolfe novel, The Right Stuff. Shepard explains why he accepted the role despite his disillusionment with Hollywood: his father was a pilot in the airforce, and as a friend of director Philip Kaufman, he decided that he wanted to take the part...
...marvelous thing about the Royal Academy's exhibition is the freshness and intelligence with which so much work is placed before the eye. This show is no routine "blockbuster," no flabby "Gold of the Gorgonzolas." It has been meticulously chosen by a committee of leading English and Italian scholars. It will open up areas of Venetian art that few but specialists were aware of. One is the print, part of the legacy of the 16th century publisher Aldus Minutius. The skill and beauty of the Aldine editions of illustrated works like the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fostered an unsurpassed quality...
...America, may even be locked into a perpetual cultural rearguard action, but at least it does not carry all kinds of touchy political ramifications. "Jazz music isn't forbidden in Cuba," D'Rivera elaborates, "but if you do that kind of music, they will put an eye on you. You're going to be like pro-American or something, you know." He also recalls some advice given him when he was playing with the fine Cuban band Irakere in the mid-'70s. "If you want to keep playing bebop on your saxophone...