Word: fritzes
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Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Mondale and Senators Fritz Hollings of South Carolina and Alan Cranston of California, condemned Reagan's approach and instead proposed more generous federal support. Cranston offered a plan featuring financial bonuses for improving test scores. Topping the $11 billion program Mondale announced six weeks ago, Hollings unveiled a $14 billion program that would give $5,000-a-year raises to all 2.3 million public school teachers. Hollings also borrowed from the Bard: "Shall the public schools of this land be bound in shallows and in miseries, or shall we take the tide at the flood...
...honorariums. The Senate also considered the matter but decided to maintain the status quo: no raise, no fee restrictions. Senators generally can command higher honorariums than House members. Last year Kansas Republican Robert Dole made $135,750 (of which he donated $51,500 to charity); South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, $92,270 (none to charity); and New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, $84,450 ($27,000 to charity...
Presidential Aspirant Fritz Rollings last week referred to his fellow presidential aspirant John Glenn as "this joker." Among the political cognoscenti that may have been the second biggest story of the week, outranked only by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's electoral tidal wave. Invective can be hazardous on the hustings in these timorous days...
Speaker Tip O'Neill has called President Reagan "Herbert Hoover with a smile," and Reagan has branded Challenger Fritz Mondale "Vice President Malaise." But those were gentle epithets delivered with a velvet glove and a twinkling eye. Since we throw so many stones into television's glass house (Reagan dubbed ABC's Sam Donaldson "the Ayatullah of the White House press corps"), it should be mentioned that most political analysts believe the electronic medium has brought a higher level of behavior among the contenders for the White House. Lamentably, the entertainment level has declined...
...Benny: "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland." For his efforts, Lubitsch was pilloried by critics for finding "fun in the bombing of Warsaw." Sometimes the very difficulties with a new language benefited Hollywood by cutting dialogue to an effective minimum. "For me," said Director Fritz Lang, "psychology is not in the talking, it is in the action, in the movement, the gestures ... It is the behaviorisms that create the character...