Word: magical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stump, Mondale has not had much success making an issue of the federal deficit. But on Sunday night he aggressively pressed Reagan for his "plan" to deal with the problem. "President Reagan takes the position [the deficit] will disappear by magic," scoffed Mondale. Reagan insisted that he would not raise taxes, and that the recovery would produce the needed revenues to close the budget gap. Reagan charged, "I don't believe that Mr. Mondale has a plan for balancing the budget. He has a plan for raising taxes." But at moments the President seemed defensive. He insisted that high...
Electronic magic touches up the classics of black-and-white...
...days in the hospital, however, Fahn reported "that Ali was responding so well to doses of Sinemet and Symmetrel, drugs that replenish the brain's supply of dopamine, that his symptoms were "melting away." Visitors, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said that Ali was entertaining other patients with magic tricks and seemed to be his old ebullient self. Before leaving the hospital for a trip to the Sudan, Ali vowed to mend his ways. "I'll get all my business done by 10, get to sleep at 10:30 and sleep till 6," he declared...
Animal Woods combines the desperate privations of war with the improbable magic of fable. The poor residents of an Italian village have learned how to cope with the unwelcome incursions of Fascist and German troops. They and their livestock just disappear into the nearby forest...
Once ignited, a sense of optimism (like pessimism) can be self-fulfilling: the U.S. has cheered up partly because enough Americans willed such a change. It is the power of positive thinking writ large. "Magic takes over from reason at such times," wrote Author Gail Sheehy last month in a paean to the new mood. Christopher Reed, writing more acidly about the Olympics for Britain's weekly Spectator, found Americans "feeling proud about their pride." Is the bonhomie real, or is the country engaged in massive autosuggestion? When it comes to a subject as ineffable as the mood...