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...saying, "Acting more like political muggers than legislators, the Republicans have failed to come up with a program to deal with the staggering deficits." Tough talk, but that, of course, will do little to resolve the current impasse. Unfortunately, the principal players now seem to feel that pointing the finger of blame will be more helpful to their political interests than agreeing to any effective deficit-reduction measures. So the only safe bet, it seems, is on the monster...
...more than a century, the camera has conspired with artists and models to create successive ideals of allure. One early ideal was Parisian: gaunt and haul monde, with cheekbones so prominent you could cut your finger on them, if you dared touch them. Then, as the Hollywood cinema shouldered its way to eminence, the world standard became the active, approachable American woman, radiating health and common sense. Now there is another ideal, a new symmetry of features raising its profile in still and moving pictures. It sells mood, merchandise, magazines and, soon, movies. It holds all the history and mystery...
...healthy ambition would have persuaded her at some point to try acting in the West. But when she did go into artistic exile, it was by a strange accident, and there was a rough irony to the circumstances that made it seem that Fate's bony finger had pointed down at her from a cumulus cloud...
...Kennedy's usual eloquence ("I speak of peace because of the new face of war"), and it also contained the most important message of his presidency. "We are not here distributing blame or pointing the finger of judgment," said Kennedy. "We must deal with the world as it is, and not as it might have been had the history of the last 18 years been different." He asked the American people to re-examine their attitudes toward the Soviet Union. He set the U.S. Government on a course of creative and conciliatory diplomacy. To show his good faith...
...which will simply enable them to see more clearly the shows they do not like watching anyway. The brave new world of convenience offered by electronic newspapers, home banking and shopping via TV does not thrill them: it seems that people want to balance their checkbooks with pencils and finger the dresses to see if they really are all wool. This, says the study, is an example of the so-called high-tech/high-touch phenomenon, which means that as technology gets more sophisticated, people seek a counterbalance in human contact...