Word: lincoln
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...Reaganism, pure and very, very simple. Down with the feds, up with "the people," which in practice means state authorities and the movers of industry and commerce. Reagan believes this message in every cell of his 6-ft. 1-in., 185-lb. body. If he starts sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom next January, the U.S. will see the biggest change in tone and direction from Washington since F.D.R.'s wheelchair rolled into the Oval Office nearly 50 years...
Three new works by U.S. composers at Lincoln Center...
...defendant, 33, stood accused of five rapes, with victims ranging from a teen-ager to a young mother walking with her children in Chicago's Lincoln Park to a 61-year-old woman. After a jury found him guilty of the one rape he was actually on trial for, Judge Robert Sklodowski pronounced him a "rape bomb, ready to explode at any time." Sklodowski handed down the maximum sentence: 60 years, 30 of which must be served before he can be paroled. Such stern penalties are rare from many judges, but they are standard procedure in three courtrooms...
...Regia britannicus in their city last week. Britain's Prince Philip, 59, conservationist husband of Queen Elizabeth, nested in Manhattan just long enough to preside at a $400-a-person dinner benefiting the New York Zoological Society, lecture on wildlife preservation to 2,700 invited guests at Lincoln Center and adroitly dodge questions. At a press conference where he was descended upon by local newshawks (clearly an unendangered species), he stuck to the matter at hand. Asked for his view of the Iran-Iraq war, his Royal Highness replied: "Bad news for the animals...
Even the positive ads are intended to carry a subliminal bite. One of Carter's, for example, has an announcer describing the complexity of the modern presidency, compared with Lincoln's day, and flashes through scenes of Carter with the Emperor of Japan, Pope John Paul II, Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat. The five-minute film ends with a weary Carter returning to the White House at dusk to work on into the night. Finally, a lonely light burns in the President's study, and the announcer says...