Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thompson acknowledges the friendship with Walsh but says he does not "go along with his theories" on rent control. Both Walsh and Thompson have said in the past that they favor imposing a "means test" that would allow only those with incomes below a certain level to pay the reduced rents...
What little suspense remains in the two plots is bumped off by two separate and rather clumsy deus ex machina climaxes. And Gino and Jerry learn some nice lessons about friendship, loyalty and honor...
...written message last week, must continue to "use their oppressor- burning flames against both the criminal Soviet Union and the world- devouring United States," looking "neither east nor west" for their future. His tone was hardly that of someone contemplating rapprochement -- or gestures designed to win U.S. friendship...
...characters who bear grudges toward the existing regime for previous abuses, yet have managed to raise themselves to positions of social prominence. Among these are Mimi, formerly Melisso, a transvestite, who with the help of hormones and breast implants becomes the most respected actress in the country, using her friendship with government officials to influence politics...
Ronald Reagan last week was talking to leaders at the U.N., the same folks who used to curse him and whom he in turn used to vilify. But this time there was warmth and friendship, and the President was fantasizing. Suppose this old world were subjected to an extraterrestrial threat, he said. Then people would band together, forget petty differences and grievances, and face the common enemy...