Word: locks
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Mazursky's best films-Blume in Love and An Unmarried Woman-had a lock on the '70s sensibility. This, one could feel, was the way the American upper middle class attempted to face the new demands of sexual and racial equality. And this was the way a sympathetic comic artist, reporting from the inside of the analysand wonderland, could transform these demands and dreams into engaging movie narratives. But when Mazursky tries to Say It All about modern life, his voice can turn strident. His valued collaborators, the actors, can lose their charm and become stick figures, animated...
...cans, mixed with hops, barley and malt." But while such a political position may play well in Milwaukee, it raises a far more serious question in what could become an increasingly shrill national debate: Should any single state, or group of states, be able to put a lock on what could be regarded as a national resource? The new water sheiks of the Midwest would probably answer with a resounding yes, but the rest of the country may take another view. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Lee Griggs/Des Moines
Even though he had a lock on Senate approval, Shultz took no chances. He let himself be grilled in rehearsal by what the State Department calls its "murder board," a cluster of top aides headed by Under Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger. He studied a thick pile of loose-leaf briefing binders from the department's regional experts. He wrote his own 13-page opening statement for the hearings. A former dean of the University of Chicago business school and still a tenured professor at Stanford University, Shultz was not satisfied with his statement until he had reworked it nearly...
...budget proposals that Reagan presented in February. The balanced-budget amendment allows Congress and the President to reassure voters that they are, at bottom, all for fiscal responsibility. Says Democratic Congressman James Shannon of Massachusetts: "It's like getting drunk and going to the police and saying, 'Lock me up, I can't help myself...
...They come with the territory, even if they sometimes seem to cover it, like drifting snow over new paths. Indeed, should the father have persevered, he might have found some first-rate advice about children in that very same book. He would also have found a kind of zip-lock naivete that insulates Author Letty Cottin Pogrebin inside a cocoon of ideology. How else could a writer suggest, never mind believe, that children might be encouraged to forsake the music of the Rolling Stones (sexist, of course) for the uplifting ballads of Gay Feminist Holly Near. Ideology infringes on reality...