Word: hardhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author believes that the Chinese were ready to settle the fuzzy frontier between India and Tibet in roughly the same way. But Nehru was supersensitive to charges from the Indian right that his policy of nonalignment meant "appeasement" of Communism. Gradually, Gandhi's white-capped protege became a hardhat on the Tibetan border question; that meant siding with those who thought that India should press its extremely doubtful claim to Chinese-held Aksai Chin on India's northwest border and a stretch of the Himalayan foothills in the northeast...
...called soul") are often less cruel than they first appear. For, if anything, the corporation is Rags's enemy and the corporation's victims, especially when cast in the role of cultural or economic underdogs, often become Rags's friends. In fact, the November cover story on girl-watching hardhats even manages, however perversely, to suggest that New York's construction workers may be the only men who really understand fashion. "Only a hardhat can separate the 'B' from the 'S' when it comes to fashion," Blaire Sabol concludes. So, while "you don't have to take a hardhat...
...planned to wear his domestic hat last week. He flew to Des Moines to push his revenue-sharing plan and other legislative reforms before receptive audiences: the Iowa state legislature and a group of Midwest Governors. But he was jeered even in Middle America by an improbable combination of hardhat construction workers and youthful war protesters. He could not shake the uncomfortable reminders of the war in Indochina...
...speared some appropriate targets, like nonnutritious foods and misleading labeling, but his humor and attack are much too forced and fevered. Another promising idea, Studs Terkel's talk show with real people instead of talk-show people, is mostly wind. Last week, though, Terkel's regular hardhat got off a gorgeous line about how his American dream was to own a bowling alley-with Arthur Schlesinger and Gore "Videll" (as he pronounced it) as pin boys...
...fascinating - but ultimately horrifying-attempt to get inside the hardhat skull, with an emphatic performance by Peter Boyle...