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...enter supply-side economics, the quasi-official theory of the Reagan Administration, with a flourish of trumpets and a roll of drums. It is far from a unified school of doctrine; supply-siders quarrel about who is preaching the true gospel and who is espousing a heretical variant. But they agree on a central line of argument that goes like this...
Their 28-year-old marriage is truly symbiotic: she provides the conditions in which he can flourish, thereby nourishing her. Observes a longtime California acquaintance: "There is no way in the Reagan relationship that you can say like him, hate her,' or 'hate him, like her.' You take them together, or you don't take them at all." Says another: "Ronnie is a nice man. Nancy isn't nice. Nancy is a doer, an achiever, a loyal friend and a good mother. But nice...
...Mountain West offers them things they have been unable to find elsewhere: more space, cleaner air, fewer people, less crime. They arrive with their own lifestyles and slowly begin to transform the places where they settle. In Sandpoint, Idaho, a favorite refuge of disillusioned Californians, boutiques and craft shops flourish and stores sell wooden tubs for outdoor bathing. Newcomers may even revive an entire town in their image. Twenty-five miles south of Santa Fe, in the Ortiz Mountains, lies the hamlet of Madrid (pop. 250). Until 1955, the community scraped together a living from nearby coal mines, but when...
...game losing streak (the longest since 1951) with a six-game winning streak (longest since 1968) was defense. You can talk about the Multiflex until it rains double-reverses, but defense led Harvard to its victories. Most of the stalwarts were seniors this year, and they exited with a flourish. Coming into the final game against Yale, both the Crimson and the more celebrated Eli defenders had each yielded 124 points in nine games for a 13.8 average. In The Game, Harvard gave up 14 points, almost exactly its average...
...more audiences, more responsibility and, most difficult, different roots. One problem at the National Theater just now is that the lavish new quarters on the South Bank of the Thames seem - in the way that culture cathedrals do - to weigh upon the work rather than let it breathe and flourish. A hothouse is required for an arts center, but a mausoleum is what usually gets built...