Word: isn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anybody listening? Well, no. In the dingy second floor office from which he directs the state Republican Party and the Goodyear tire franchise in Manchester, G.O.P. Chairman Gerald Carmen concedes that "the ordinary, rank and file voter isn't all that stirred up. You think he's trying to decide between Reagan and Crane? Nah. He's wondering whether his car will start in this cold weather. He's hoping the temperature won't drop to 20 below tonight...
...waitress brings Pell's check. "You have a favorite presidential candidate yet?" she is asked. "No," she shrugs "I'm just thinkin' about the North Pole.' What about the North Pole? "I'm thinkin' it isn't this cold at the North Pole...
...quirky humor and antic allusiveness have been rubbed away, and Halloween, by comparison, is thinned by the expenditure of so much energy towards pure scariness. Carpenter flirts, here as in Assault, with some vaguely metaphysical notions about fate and death and evil, but you get the sense that he isn't really serious about it, and is merely doodling in the exceptionally wide margins of his plots...
...Being that sick isn't worth $25," a spectator said...
...Production isn't good unless it benefits the consumer. The whole purpose of an economy should be the consumer's well-being," Nader said...