Word: gristly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always influence his public actions. The speech to the evangelicals was simply Ronald Reagan opening his heart, quieting his New Right constituents with assurances of agreement that he would not make in Washington. The several political points he made in the process were secondary. The speech will provide considerable grist for the intellectual historian of half a century hence trying to discover "the real Ronald Reagan." But aside from what appears to be renewed opposition to the nuclear freeze movement, it provides few clues as to the future course of the Administration...
...Anatolian. With humor and affection, as well as a bruised sense of the dark side of immigrant life, he has woven a saga as richly textured as a fine Kirman carpet. Or one of the great old Kazan films, for which The Anatolian would have made fine grist. -By Michael Demarest
DIED. Brenda Diana Duff Frazier Kelly Chatfield-Taylor, 60, former "Glamour Girl No. 1" of New York café society; of cancer; in Newton Lower Falls, Mass. An heiress at twelve and debutante of the year at 17, Frazier became melodramatic grist for tabloids chronicling such fatuous events of the '40s as her dating of John F. Kennedy and her ill-fated engagement to Howard Hughes. Years later, after two failed marriages and protracted psychoanalysis, she wrote that her early life was far from the big cotillion it was thought to be. "All it brought me," she said...
They cannot understand women, cannot communicate with them. Their dates are elaborate games in which bets are placed as to how far the action will go, and which provide grist for a good week of boasting. Even the one member of the group who is married, Shrevie (Daniel Stern), eventually tells a friend that marriage is "all right," but that he honestly can't hold a conversation with his wife for more than five minutes...
Such an occasion took place earlier this week, when Reagan held his fifth news conference since taking office. Because much of the grist of what Reagan said may have been lost amid the nearly incoherent babbling, a few choice questions and responses bear repeating...