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...Blue Valentine" has been gathering dust in the unpaved car lot every afternoon for three weeks in October '79, while inside the faceless, uninviting brick and concrete complex Tom Waits -- beatnik balladeer, jazz journeyman (the ad might read: "Have gravelly voice. Will stand up and sing.") -- has been readying his band for a tour that will take them across the country and through Christmas, visiting theaters and small halls. "I don't play many beer bars any more," Waits explains. "I used to play exclusively toilets, that's all I wanted to play. But the thing is, you play toilets...
...himself, stressed the need to fight unemployment. But his speech will be remembered for its litany of past Reagan positions. Ending each citation with the question, "Who on earth would say something like that? Ronald Reagan did!" Mondale quoted Reagan as calling the weak and the disadvantaged "a faceless mass waiting for handouts"; saying programs that help blacks and Hispanics were "demeaning" and "insulting"; and declaring that "the minimum wage has caused more misery and unemployment than anything since the Great Depression." Mondale set the audience to chorusing with him the punch line "Ronald Reagan...
...reality, and the need for American knowledge about Soviet society was more pressing than ever. Says World Editor John Elson, who was in charge of the project: "I hope readers get from this a sense of the extraordinary complexity of the Soviet Union. It's not a gray, faceless monolith but an enormously vital country, with eleven time zones, diverse races and nationalities, and more than 100 languages...
...given up? Paperwork, the yanking of her favorite subjects (science and geography) from the curriculum, she answers. But as she talks, what emerges is a general hopelessness and resentment of a faceless bureaucratic system. On pressure to bring up test scores, for example, she says: "It doesn't matter that the kid is a Pakistani, and his home life is bad and he can't read English." Feeling she can neither help her students nor please the administration depresses her and makes her defensive and cynical-about the school and herself. Says she: "The good teachers have...
...universities are only one of the enemies Cambridge confronts--the faceless specter of "economic forces" haunts this city...