Word: heyes
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Bennett shared his charges' interest in touch football, beer and especially rock music. (He once stopped traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike when he noticed the toll taker's badge and asked, "Hey, are you the Tommy Facenda who sang High School U.S.A.?") Bennett opposed the Vietnam War, but he respected the men who served there. He grew sickened by much of what he saw at Harvard: privileged youth skipping class to smoke dope and watch soap operas, and twisting the antiwar movement into an attack on America. Like another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, Bennett thought less that...
Your Yale friends, including those you lost touch with years ago, will start calling in droves and smirking: "Hey, Tom, how are you doing? Heard about those U.S. News rankings...
...plan for a 15% tax cut will supposedly work because this extra money in people's pockets will create new jobs, increase productivity and still make possible the elimination of the deficit by 2002, as scheduled. Well, hey, if this is not voodoo economics but will really work, why not cut taxes 25% or even 30%, thereby doubling the number of jobs created and productivity, and making possible the elimination of the deficit in three--maybe even two--years? This tax-cutting idea has endless possibilities. JOHN R. MAYER Melville, New York...
...HEART To watch a movie set in recent decades is to run a reality check on the cast and crew. Are they wearing the accurately awful frocks? Any anachronistic dialogue? In this game of dueling memories we may be no closer to the truth than the filmmakers, but hey, we were there. Any fiction movie becomes, in our eyes, a failed documentary. In Allison Anders" Grace of My Heart, there's little doubt that the tale of Denise Waverly (Ileana Douglas), who in the early '60s marries a young lyricist (Eric Stoltz) and with him writes...
...realized, had ever written a convention speech before, and probably the whole lot of them working overtime couldn't put together a 30-second commercial if they tried. "Darn," said the President finally, "get me a real writer. Like that Helprin fellow, if he's still peddling paragraphs--or, hey, what about Peggy Noonan herself...