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...these the Cleavers or the Bunkers, this family of four preparing for an ordinary Thanksgiving in 1973? There's Dad (Carroll O'Connor), screwing himself into his easy chair, deflecting harsh words and harder responsibilities. Mom (Frances Sternhagen) is patrolling the house in her robe and bunny snood, calling "Wakey uppy! Wakey uppy!" in the tinny cascades of Texas motherhood. Sis (Linda Cook) is chatting on the phone with her boyfriend and threatening to "devote my entire life to crisis counseling for the holiday-impaired. My mother can be the poster child." And young Jeremy (Christopher Fields), just back from...
Given the chill of the past four years, it comes as a relief that the two sides are willing to sit down to talk at all. President Reagan had to ignore some of his own harsh rhetoric; the Soviets had to abandon their vow not to return to the negotiating table until the U.S. pulled its missiles out of Europe. Thus, it is no wonder that the world will be watching, and hoping, when Secretary of State George Shultz joins Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva next week to renew nuclear arms-control talks after a yearlong hiatus...
...election campaign heated up, the Administration had harsh words for the Federal Reserve, where Chairman Paul Volcker stood firm for a restrictive policy. Said Treasury Secretary Donald Regan in May: "If the Fed continues on its tight path now, it will have an effect on November and December. Is that politics, and does that have us worried? You bet your life it has us worried...
...Kirkpatrick, who told TIME editors at a meeting in Dallas during the Republican National Convention that she sympathized with Geraldine Ferraro in her pioneering role as the first woman vice-presidential candidate. While political opportunities for women are opening, she continued, "it is a very harsh game, and I do not think women want whatever it is at the end of that particular rainbow badly enough to pursue...
Nativity scenes bring a harsh cacophony of jingle bells and legal jangles...