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...billion deficit projected for 1989 is so large, the candidate said, that a stack of $1 bills in that amount would reach halfway to the moon. The Federal Government, he went on, needs to borrow $500 million today just to get through tomorrow. The simple, vivid images were right out of Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign repertoire, but now the speaker was Walter Mondale. All week long the Democrat pounded away at the budget deficits ("a trap door under our economy") and at the President's denial that tax increases are inevitable. And all week long the Reagan...
...gaunt and great Grete Waitz finished second, 1 min. 26 sec. late, without encouraging any discussion of her chronically creaky back. It had been in severe spasm the day before. Benoit was "too strong," said Grete, who had never before lost a marathon that she finished. By the halfway point, according to her old Norwegian saying, "the train had already left." Waitz was one of the few runners who viewed the Swiss straggler with a totally unmixed emotion: "I would have taken her right off the track. I don't like to watch that." Benoit sighed, "She had come...
Like all top athletes, Joan Benoit is accustomed to pain. But one day last March, more than halfway through a routine 20-mile run in Maine in preparation for the Olympic marathon, she felt a sharp stab on the outside of her right knee. Within the next mile, she recalls, "the knee completely prevented me from running another step." Her doctor, Orthopedic Surgeon Robert Leach of Boston University Medical Center, gave her an injection of cortisone. After a week's rest Benoit resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time...
...experiences to be shared. Only Wild Honey, Michael Frayn's free adaptation of a play Chekhov wrote when he was still a student, strikes vital sparks, and this because Frayn treats the text as an organism that can flower with care and pruning. At 21, Chekhov was already halfway toward being "Chekhovian"; he alternated comic and pathetic moods instead of blending the two into a sonorous melancholy for the class of landed Russians who would fall before the Revolution...
...celebrating Ferraro's nomination as Vice President. But a series of news leaks, riled the delegates before they arrived in San Francisco. By the time Mondale showed up on Monday, they were fighting mad, even though the Mondale camp had wisely decided to back off, at least halfway...