Word: lying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Issues of substance lie on the table of presidential action. Ronald Reagan had a neat, three-sided diagram of the future in his first election: to reduce inflation, re-establish U.S. defense and balance the budget. But the triangle would not join, and through the gap in its apex, there ballooned a budget deficit of terrifying dimensions. His first stated order of business is to face that problem with sweeping tax revision. One of Reagan's greatest achievements in his first term was to bring into being a bipartisan commission that finally put Social Security on firm footing...
...difficult to assess the enigmatic and contradictory personality of the woman who ruled India for most of two decades, but the roots must lie somewhere in those years of loneliness. Daughter of a champion of democracy, she made herself at one point a virtual dictator. She could be warm and charming but also arrogant and ruthless. She always had a look of sadness. "I like being Prime Minister, yes, but... I am not ambitious," she once said. And on another occasion: "I could have become an interior decorator. I could even have become a dancer...
...often found him hard to love and harder to please. A sister and a daughter went insane; a son killed himself. Pritchard repeatedly uses the word shocking to describe the sardonic hardness with which Frost inured himself to these blows. "As I get older I find it easier to lie awake nights over other people's troubles," the poet wrote to a friend after committing his sister to a mental hospital. "But that's as far as I go to date. In good time I will join them in death to show our common humanity...
...quite different. Susan Turley, a corporate speechwriter in Memphis, says she has often been "given grief for wearing pants." As for formal dinners, she goes on, "the big thing these days is white linen, shined crystal, elegance all over the place-and then after dinner, take off your shoes, lie down on the floor, and play Trivial Pursuit all evening. I guess what's significant is that Trivial Pursuit just hit Memphis about a month ago." Comments an employee at an advertising agency: "You ask me about nightclubs? There are no nightclubs in Memphis. My God, we just heard...
Indeed, beneath all this ornamentation lie a number of strong, independent female characters, who represent a big advance over the homebound, second-banana roles to which TV once relegated women. Alexis Colby is head of an oil empire. Fairchild's character runs a top modeling agency. Even the fun-loving private eyes are doing work formerly reserved for men. "Lynda Carter and I play two working women," says Anderson. "We rent a house, and a man is our servant. Women want to see women being both strong and glamorous at the same time. To be glamorous doesn...