Word: hills
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are few more abject sights than that of Congress surrendering to interest-group pressure. But even by the craven standards of Capitol Hill, it was striking when the House voted 360 to 66 last week to rescind the Medicare catastrophic health-insurance program that it had lopsidedly approved amid a self-congratulatory frenzy just last year. The Senate showed enough moxie to save fragments of the plan, but it too voted to kill a special income-tax surcharge (up to $800) that would have been levied solely on the affluent elderly to help fund the program...
Danny Deck, the hero of McMurtry's earlier novel All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers, has earned more than $300 million as the writer-producer of a TV sitcom called Al and Sal. Retired at age 51 in the mansion he has built on an isolated hill in Texas, he dreams of writing a novel and keeps in touch by telephone with a network of glamorous actresses scattered about the globe. One morning he receives a call and hears an unfamiliar female voice: "Mr. Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy...
Still, Bush's forceful calls for Noriega's ouster have created expectations in some quarters that the U.S. would intervene at some critical juncture to assist a coup attempt. The President's unwillingness to back tough talk with forceful action did not go unnoticed on Capitol Hill. No sooner had the shooting stopped in Panama than the shouting began in congressional chambers, resulting in some of the oddest political couplings in recent memory...
Through it all, the Bush Administration defended its actions without apology. "It's easy to be an armchair general," Secretary of State James Baker said with evident irritation to his Capitol Hill critics. "You don't ((risk American lives)) on the basis of someone else's plans and in response to rapidly changing circumstances...
...Bill Plympton's look at how to shed the deadly habit, and award-winning graphicist John Lasseter's computer-generated Knick Knack. The Festival of Animation is known internationally as one of the best showcases for the most recent creations in animation. This year's show also highlights The Hill Farm, which took the Grand Prize at the Annecy France Film Festival and which displays a realistic look at British country life...