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...material to overheat and, finally, to erupt like a volcano. The first response to this assertion was pronounced skepticism, even among Western experts. The CIA said there had been nothing but a minor accident, and the chairman of Britain's Atomic Energy Authority dismissed the theory as "a figment of the imagination...
Manhattan--the one in the Rodgers and Hart song, the city of dreams in '30s movies, the old apogee of swank--has become a figment of Woody Allen's imagination. Thank heavens. Reclamation of the borough's tattered image could be in no better hands. In Annie Hall, Manhattan and this beguiling new comedy, the penthouses have been replaced by SoHo lofts West Side labyrinths, but the preoccupations are pretty much the same as those faced by romantic New Yorkers from Fred and Ginger to Kate and Cary. Smart people with sin-deep problems walk through a muggerless Central Park...
...POPUIAR five term Congressman defeat a moral majorjtarian airline pilot? Dose it matter if the former airline pilot's wife belongs to an organization that believes that orgasms are essential to mental and physical health--for children as well as adults? Is this America or another figment of Ronald Reagan's imagination...
...difficult to recognize. Sexual harassment is a professor talking about having a "magic tongue." It is grabbing a student's breast or lying on the floor and staring up her skirt...It is not, in the vast majority of cases, ambiguous behavior. It is not, as some imply, a figment of a students' imagination or a weapon women use to damage men's reputations. These worries are usually expressed by men and women who have had little experience dealing with harassment cases or who impose confusion on themselves...
...memo to Counsellor Edwin Meese, he noted that he was "perplexed" by accounts that people in the country were going hungry and asked for a "task force to bring me a no-holds-barred study" of the problem. Meese commented sanguinely: "It may turn out to be all a figment of TV's imagination." The panel is expected to be chaired by the dean of U.C.L.A.'s Graduate School of Management, J. Clayburn La Force. Complained Martha Ballou, who coordinated Minnesota's Task Force on Emergency Food and Shelter: "I don't know why the Reagan...