Word: itemizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lyne had intended to produce a damning critique of contemporary culture, then he has fashioned an existential horror story of Sartrean proportions. The film reflects how Lyne and much of contemporary society have come to view human relationships--they are merely another item at the checkout counter...
...story was White House Correspondent David Beckwith, who has examined Washington influence peddling before. In 1978, as a staff writer in New York City, he wrote a cover story on the power of lawyers, including those in the nation's capital. Observes Beckwith: "Washington lawyers were the hot item of that day, when they helped businessmen thread the mazes of Government regulation. Today an influence seeker needs someone to help him fight for a piece of a shrinking federal pie. Those lawyers have had the game taken away from them...
...INCIDENT aside, babies are in no immediate danger of becoming just another mass-produced consumer item...
...Item: Though the White House yesterday finally called on Ferdinand Marcos to step down, the Reagan Administration waffled for weeks while Corazon Aquino, the most inspiring "freedom fighter" in recent memory, was cheated out of the Philippine presidency by the Marcos's sleazy shenanigans. The presidential hemming and hawing on the Philippine election, which Aquino correctly called a contest between good and evil, came during a new Administration initiative to funnel aid to two dubious movements: the Contras in Nicaragua and Jonas Savimbi's South Africa-backed rebels in Angola...
...Item: U.S. fear at alienating its NATO allies may cause Reagan to reject a promising Soviet offer to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe. The proposal, which will probably be ignored, was made more enticing after Mikhail Gorbachev recently told a visiting Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 that a European-arena agreement would not be tied to Star Wars...