Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books, sometimes gets eight hours of sleep a night, presides over quiet dinners in his Georgetown home. His flop-eared hound Tyler has developed an incurable fondness for the main swimming pool on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico hills and also his master's warm bed, the instant Kissinger vacates it in the morning. Private Citizen Henry Kissinger has a trick back like millions of other Americans; he also has income tax worries, difficulties with his credit card and is approacinng with some misgivings the day he becomes a homeowner...
...pretty, especially as seen in cushioned escape bubble. But dewy as a debutante ("Oh! James!"). Hard to believe her as dangerous spy. Where are the Honor Blackmans and Diana Riggs of yesteryear? Roger Moore, as Bond, a road-company Sean Connery. At least he's improvement on that instant-trivia question, George Lazenby...
Both technically and morally, the most difficult problem is to decide at what precise instant life occurs. Is it in the actual conceptive collision of sperm and egg? Is it only when the fetus "quickens," at five months or so? The Supreme Court in 1973 simply said that abortion in the early stages of pregnancy should be a medical, not a criminal matter; it was best left to the judgment of the woman and her physician. Given the violence of warring moralities in the abortion debate, the law was unreasonably strained. The statutes forbidding abortion were a kind of Volstead...
...show, repeated tirelessly before different audiences, underscores both her strengths and weaknesses. She has instant recognition and a kind of asphalt glamour unmatched by any of her male adversaries in the race. She is also highly credible to ordinary voters, many of whom seem ready for a tough voice. That same message, however, makes her suspect among those who fear a return to the city's bad old days of openhanded spending on social services, consider her leftish, and point to her lack of administrative experience. And, just below the surface of her current relatively controlled persona, lurks...
...cocaine or heroin and nearly as available as marijuana in many major cities. The drug's ingredients are not only widely known but easy to assemble in basement labs. Equally important, the drug stirs a reaction within minutes. Hence it has become what one California official calls an instant macho symbol: "If you can take it and survive, it is evidence that you are a real...