Word: itemizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's most distressing tendencies. He has a propensity to seize on one comforting truth and magnify it into the whole truth, blocking out all evidence of continuing or looming trouble. Says one former aide: "You have to be careful with him. If you had nine bad items to tell him and one good one, he would latch on to the tenth favorable item and discount the other nine. The blind spots are very troubling...
...three times since he has been President. He does not know in any specific way what most of us do or how we do it." The President gets some of his information about how his own Government works from his mail and the newspapers; he regularly clips an item or passes on a letter relating some individual's difficulties with the federal authorities. Says one aide: "He doesn't ask how Aid to Families with Dependent Children works. He asks why this mother of three is having trouble getting aid. He is a marvelous caseworker...
...China steamy video cassettes from the black market are a very hot item. What Americans term blue movies, the Chinese call yellow, but by any name, erotic films make party officials see red, as does anything that smacks of a "decadent" bourgeois Western lifestyle. All VCRs must be registered with local officials, and video cassettes must be approved as healthy for mind and body...
...look hard enough, you can find every conceivable type of holiday item in the shop. But while browsing, let the buyer beware. Step on one section of carpet in the corner of the candle room, and you'll trigger a whole manger scene--complete with music, lights, hay, and even a flying angel--on one side of the room. A lifesize model child sleeps in a bed in the middle of one room, and in another corner, the likeness of Santa himself snoozes in his rocker...
...chipmunk's mainstream pop doesn't satiate your more adventuresome taste, try the Christmas Rock collection on Rhino Records. Likely to become a collectors item, this limited edition on a green, Christmas-tree-shaped disk features one of the hottest punk groups around. The Dragons, as well as California surf-rock veterans the Malibooz. The former let loose with an ear-shattering version of "Silent Night" that makes the infamous Neil Young rendition sound like chamber music. As for the Mals, they make Christmas in California a real treat. Who cares that there's no snow in Malibu. When Santa...