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...million in the 1985 budget to notify vulnerable workers. But according to Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader and Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of the Public Citizen Health Research Group, the Reagan Administration rejected that request. In a letter to the President last week, Nader and Wolfe wrote, "The lame excuse offered in defense of this unethical, immoral decision is 'there is no legal responsibility for NIOSH to notify...
That psychic procrustean bed is being splintered by Ferraro's campaign. The next woman to run for Vice President will not need to achieve perfect self-modulation. Nor will a male candidate again take the liberty, as George Bush did, of making lame jokes about the World Series when given the chance to ask a question of his female opponent. Lee Csanad, a typographer, said indignantly, "Bush certainly underscored the fact that to this Administration our opinion has never mattered." The Bush campaign's post-debate donning of the manly trappings of the locker room-from gleeful references...
...method proved a lifesaver to brothers Lame and Glen Selby of Caspar, Wyo, who were burned after they playfully painted their bodies, tried to remove the paint with a solvent and then came into contact with a flame...
...Tartuffe in or der to assert his moral superiority over a family that has grown fractious. Harris Yulin's Tartuffe is cold and cobra-like, vengeful and vain. He has a genuine element of fervor: he endures ritual flogging, dispenses alms, even appears to heal the halt and lame. But there is nothing inspirational in him and nothing ennobling in his impact. In the opening scenes, the actors appear in clownish whiteface and lurch like robots. The playing reaches its tenderest pitch at an utterly perverse moment: Harriet Harris, as Orgon's wife, fakes lust for Tartuffe...
...from destruction." Hart denied that Youngbird was any kind of guru and said the ceremony had been an innocuous dedication of a park. On top of that flap, Hart was quoted in the Denver Post as calling Mondale's interviews in North Oaks "something very close to pandering." His lame comment: "I don't recall the context...