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...totaled 75 writers. "This show is so light," she once said, "that it would take a week to get to the ground if you dropped it from the ceiling." The producers did not understand either. They eventually fired Jackson as a nuisance and brought in a model named Shelley Hack. This was supposed to be an improvement, for Hack was both a Smith graduate and a well-known New York clotheshorse. Said Spelling: "The girls are tired of having the show referred to as T & A ... Suddenly it's In to be well dressed...
...change a success? Hardly ever out of the top ten during its first three years, Angels gradually sank to 17th. Something had gone wrong, and nobody could figure out what. With the acerbic Jackson gone, the remaining beauties sometimes seemed to blur, to look remarkably alike. The producers let Hack go but turned once again to New York City for a solution. This time, after having some 100 actresses read for the part, they hired Tanya Roberts, an off-Broadway hopeful whom the publicity handouts described as "streetwise." Said she: "I'm going to bust...
...Hack in mid-March, when members of the Gay Students Association (GSA) first prepared to go before the Faculty Council to urge that the University adopt a formal policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. GSA officials had reason for optimism...
...them. Reagan noted ruefully in his TV speech that all the cuts that he proposes will merely make federal spending lower than it otherwise would be, not lower than it is now; total spending will continue to grow because of inflation, however much the White House and Congress may hack and trim. Moreover, there is one gigantic exception to the Administration's cut-and-slash plans: military spending. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger is likely to propose, and Reagan may well recommend, a fiscal 1982 defense budget of $220 billion, almost $24 billion above the figure Jimmy Carter...
Viewing all the pomp and folks from elegant circumstances, no less a Reagan partisan that Senator Barry Goldwater growled "ostentatious." He objected to such a public display of wealth "at a time when most people can't hack it." Marcia Carter, a Republican civic leader from Houston, agreed. Said she: "The thing that offended me most was the great extravagance at a time when we're supposed to be cutting the budget and showing restraint on all unnecessary frills." Robert Michel, the new Republican minority leader in the House, complained: "At these prices, only those of a certain...