Word: farawayness
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...hear critics tell it, supply-side economics, and thus Reaganomics, originated in a faraway jungle where voodoo is in vogue. Supply-side theory, which emphasizes the importance of tax cuts in stimulating economic growth, actually sprang forth from leading universities like Columbia, and has been refined at several respected think tanks. One of these is the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Two of the institute's scholars, Charles Murray and George Gilder, have written new books that are already stirring as much comment and controversy as the original supply-side ideas...
...their main characters. Body Double presents a familiar De Palma loner: a pleasant enough wimp who becomes fascinated, then sexually obsessed, with a faraway female figure. This time the wimp is Jack, a movie actor (Craig Wasson), and the love object is a wealthy young woman (Deborah Shelton) with a body as taut and talented as a porn star's. Too soon, Jack finds he must share the fantasy. Another man is watching, one who has more violent designs on the woman: murder by a power drill that moves toward her and through her like the phallus of death...
...orchestra of enormous range and power, and when it was silenced last week, its graceful sound seemed to linger on for millions who had heard it on film and stage. Homer must have known someone very much like Richard Burton. Describing Odysseus' effect on an audience in a faraway land, the poet wrote: "He ceased; but left so pleasing on the ear his voice, that list'ning still they seemed to hear...
...they have so far touched only a fraction of the country. With a quarter of the world's people scattered across 3.69 million sq. mi., China is so vast and complex that even the most far-reaching reforms will take years to filter down to every farm, village and faraway province. Nor can any regime transform almost overnight a proud nation saddled with a 3,000-year history of turbulence...
...dares to impersonate a Lithuanian girleen. She has twisted Singer's story-of a studious imp who dresses up as a boy and contrives to marry her best friend's fiancee-into a moral tale about three victims of circumstance and prejudice. She has found in this faraway fable aspects of her own autobiography, and made Yentl a metaphor for the long struggle of womankind to emerge into the lonely splendor that is Streisand. For her male co-star she hired Mandy Patinkin, who has wrapped his crystalline Broadway tenor voice around Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber, then...