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...preponderance of the Soviet Union in conventional arms. The driving force of the movement is a feeling that Europeans have lost control of their future, that they could be incinerated in a war between the superpowers. In West Germany, the starkest of the protest slogans hits closest to the gut of the matter: ICH HABE ANGST (I am afraid). It is a feeling being articulated across Europe by a frightened young generation, and by its elders...
...hard to feel deep loss when the rootless bikers are such egotistical fuck-ups; are they the future of America? But when lofty idealist George Hansen is killed in his sleep near a campfire that has recently glowed with hope for humanity, never knowing what hit him, your gut plummets. Is this America...
This sounds, on the surface, like the ultimate putdown, an undisguised request that Nicholson find a more suitable calling. But for Nicholson, it was a pat on the back. He had made a movie from his gut, and had obviously conveyed his inner self. Smoking grass, hysterical high school girls, and drifting heads are what make him tick. He only became an actor because, "all the chicks I liked were doing [theater]" in high school. And he only pursued it as a career because he despised school too much to follow up his high SATs. So the drifting head went...
Last week Treasury Secretary Regan also went after Stockman. Said he: "I feel as if I am being pushed and pulled. I am going to have to start running this operation from my gut." After a midweek strategy session with aides, Regan decided to picture the Budget Director as pursuing a flawed policy that is playing into the hands of the Democrats. Regan's argument is that by allowing the Congress to consider tax increases as an alternative to further budget cuts, Stockman is actually putting the Administration's entire program in jeopardy...
...city's rent-control program--which benefits the vast majority of city residents, both those who live in rent-controlled apartments and those who enjoy Cambridge's diversity--is under fire. Increasingly, big developers and landlords on the lookout for windfall profits are trying to gut the controls, though pressure on the city's housing market remains tremendous...