Word: john
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anthony Beilenson, a California Democrat who since 1985 has introduced two bills to raise the gasoline tax. Both have gone nowhere. The undaunted Beilenson plans to try again in 1989. "The math just calls out for taxes," he says, "and this is one of the simplest ones around." Says John Gore, a Washington representative of British Petroleum: "Nobody's pushing for a higher gas tax, but it seems to have a life...
Later there would be endless musing over "Reagan luck" and "Reagan magic." He was in fact often fortunate. Not only did John Hinckley's bullet stop an inch from Reagan's heart, for instance, but the shooting occurred at a time when the public was still forming its concept of the new President. Reagan's image was enhanced when he responded with both wit and grit. But the incantations about "magic" imply mystical powers beyond the ken of other politicians. There is nothing mysterious about a veteran public performer with a knack for timing, a keen sense for what will...
...play to the camera but how to work with it as well, and you can see the moment it happened, in Brian De Palma's crafty 1984 rendering of an in-concert Dancing in the Dark. After that, Springsteen performed dazzlingly and acted well (most notably in John Sayles' splendid narrative worked around I'm on Fire). He may not be ready to hit the road to Hollywood, but these videos prove that between rock and music, Springsteen's on a two-way street...
...interviews last week with TIME managing editor Henry Muller and chief of correspondents John Stacks, the Arab leaders each emphasized that the incoming Bush Administration should make the Middle East a top priority and must persuade (a polite word for "pressure") Israel's newly formed unity government to enter peace negotiations aimed at reaching a settlement fair to the Palestinians...
Screenplay by John Patrick Shanley...