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...have abortions than the population at large. What exactly is meant by the term "goal-oriented"? I am sure that other women would agree that no period in life is more "goal-oriented" than pregnancy. I can only assume Ms. Orza wished to imply that career women have loftier goals than those of us dedicated to the successful raising of children...
...left to Gonzales to sound a loftier note. Anticipating a medal-whining performance, East Los Angeles' favorite son was talking accomplishment, not three-fight contracts. "I'm going to wear that gold medal with pride, and then I'm going to put it around my mother's neck," he said. "She deserves it more than me." In a tournament in which it seemed that the amateur ideal of pure sport had taken more than a few shots to the head, this was refreshing indeed. -By Michael Walsh. Reported by BJ. Phillips/Los Angeles
...possible staff shakeups. Some advisers urged Hart to strike out more directly at Mondale in the coming contests. The tactic worked in New Hampshire. But other aides pointed out that this began to backfire as Mondale retaliated sharply, especially in New York. They argued that Hart's loftier themes were submerged in the catfight with Mondale...
...close ties. Both star in comedies of the unconscious, burlesques of psychoanalytic processes whose irreverence and shocking explicitness challenge the pieties that protect hidden feelings. "Ill tell you your calling," screams Zuckerman at Critic Appel, "President of the Rabbinical Society for the Suppression of Laughter in the Interest of Loftier Values! Minister of the Official Style for Jewish Books Other than the Manual for Circumcision...
...there are suggestions, even from Meyer, that it has been beaten out in the high earnestness sweepstakes. Meyer concedes his movie "has a minimum of imagination" but thinks Dr. Strangelove is "distilled through comedy," which presumably means that his own enterprise, being so conspicuously short of humor, serves some loftier social purpose. This type of cultural con is a piece of undiluted show-biz self-protection, and a good thing too. Political immediacy is just about all The Day After has going for it. By any standards other than social, it is a terrible movie...