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...White House seems to be in an if-you-can't-lick-'em-join-'em mood. Late last week Ronald Reagan's speechwriters were still circulating competing drafts of the State of the Union address the President is to deliver Tuesday night. One point not in much dispute is that the President will stress the need to restore U.S. "competitiveness." He plans to propose some form of retraining for workers, a loosening of antitrust laws to enable American companies to band together against foreign competition, and increased federal assistance to American research and development. Ohio Congressman Bill Gradison...
Vacuous and innocent, she lacks the flirtatious savvy of the brassy Lol, who trots about with a swing in her hips, pink lipstick on her lips, and who, at her young age, really knows how to lick a lollypop...
...policemen stand before a table displaying sacks of white powder, like babies laid out in their christening dresses. Dissolve. A teenage mother sits with the back of her head to the camera and discusses her heroin addiction with Bryant Gumbel. Dissolve. Ronald Reagan grasps the lectern and vows to lick this scourge. Dissolve. A gray figure skulks in an alley and holds an odd contraption to his mouth. The voice-over cites statistics on the use of something called "crack," speaks of billions spent this year alone on illegal drugs, of the alarming rise of this, the terrifying appearance...
...vivid pictures and descriptions of violence and protest which egg them on to protest. Congressional interest will dwindle without such public pressure--to the delight of the Pretoria government. As after the Sharpville and Soweto riots, South Africa is plotting to gain time out of the limelight to lick its wounds and quell internal and external dissent...
...these are the things you think of and write when Love has been beamed via-satellite to your friend's living room and the best you can do is consider graduate school in Texas or maybe lean over to, like, lick the TV screen...