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Reagan's 43-min. speech lacked a central inspirational theme, which had been one of his hallmarks as the Great Communicator. Instead, it read like a laundry list of legislative goals. "It was less a speech in the typical Ronald Reagan style and more of a paper, a document," said Speechwriter Bakshian...
Immediately following Reagan's address, the networks provided the Democrats with time to reply, but their response was oblique at best. At a cost of $120,000, they put on a 28-min. film, filled with razzle-dazzle graphics and tightly edited statements. The program, narrated by Lawyer Harry McPherson (see box), was prepared days before the President gave his speech and thus reflected little of Reagan's effort to achieve bipartisan unity. It argued, not all that persuasively, that the Democrats are brimming with alternative programs. "It's time we put up or shut up," said...
Click, click, click. Let your magic channel selector take you on a ramble through the satellite night. Three basketball games fill the sports stations: one pro, one college, one high school. Cable News Network is airing its 30-min. business report. With Mick Jagger and Joan Jett setting the tempo, MTV rocks all night. PBS has opera in German and soap opera in the Queen's English. In the free-for-all called cable access, gurus and do-gooders are proselytizing for churches without disciples, causes without effect. A raunchier access channel offers the spectacle of a young...
...nevertheless remain deployed and are under negotiation in Geneva. The Soviets have deployed some 340 SS-20s in the past six years-a rate of more than one a week-scattered over 38 sites. Two-thirds are west of the Ural Mountains, pointing westward with at most a 20-min. flight to West Germany. Sums up a Bonn defense official: "There is no Soviet weapons system in its class that comes close to matching the SS-20." A compatriot in the Foreign Ministry agrees. "The SS-20," he says, "is a unique threat...
...virtues of originality and sweat. New workers were employed as pristine users, and psychologists tested new features for what the industry calls "user friendliness." The results now appear to be very friendly. Apple says its studies show that a novice can learn to operate Lisa in 20 to 40 min., as opposed to the 20 to 40 hrs. of instruction usually needed to master a first-generation computer...