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...political jokes, like Johnny Carson. Indeed, they rarely tell jokes or stories at all. They do not talk about their mothers, their wives, their egos. Their past is a mystery; their presence is perplexing. They may be the first generation of comics to forgo the funnyman's implicit plea: love me by laughing at me. The post-funny comics can do without both...
...tries to establish. One feels he is sometimes easing away from the tougher implications of his tale. There is also an empty prettiness to his shooting, especially in the transitions from season to season. Still, American movies are rarely as alert as The Four Seasons is to the tensions implicit in friendship, to the social conventions by which people try to control the anxieties of ordinary life, and one cannot help responding warmly to the good work of an obviously decent man. -By Richard Schickel
...Implicit in the President's reaction to the budget vote was a threat to enlist that same kind of constituent pressure on lawmakers who fail to follow through on the rest of his economic package. Predicted Reagan: "When the people speak, Washington will now listen-and will act." Legislative strategists for the White House made little effort to conceal their optimistic belief that Reagan's popularity, coupled with his bold program, may even have forged a new coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that will give the G.O.P. practical control of the House, despite the Democrats present...
...administrators in the Freshman Dean's Office. "Mr. Crooks wanted me in Weld North--that would have meant like six roommates. But the argument went that Hank Moses didn't like that because he didn't want to put any burden on other freshmen, whether it was explicit or implicit." Mattlin says. Moses refuses comment...
SCIENCE SITS balanced somewhere between the possible and the actual. Emanating from a private world of thought, science is rarely the straightforward and successful march to accomplishment that so many imagine. Hesitation, compromise, public courage and private honesty are all needed to bridge the gap from the implicit to the explicit. And it takes time. Time to become aware of one's own ideas. times to test those ideas. and time to doubt those ideas. And in a world of shrinking grants and budgetary stripmining. time is running out faster than the money that pays...