Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some dethpickable humiliation. Droopy dog would corral a wolf felon by employing the emotional minimalism of a Buster Keaton on Quaaludes. Maybe there'd be an early Disney cartoon for more refined preteen appetites. And then, on with the main attraction! The feature was often a broken-down B-minus monster movie, and pretty much an aesthetic anticlimax after the seven-minute masterpieces that opened the show. At the time, of course, nobody figured to hang cartoons in a museum. Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and the Disney elves were considered ghetto artisans then, not the Leonardos of cinema comedy...
...problems of keeping it from children are insurmountable, these are all important and possibly determinative considerations. But society's ability to weigh these factors is hobbled by its inability to accept the obvious truth: like alcohol's, marijuana's function as a pleasure drug is a plus, not a minus in the calculation...
...Administration dangled the prospect of a slimmed down version of the bill, minus the plant-closings and perhaps other provisions, once Congress has sustained Reagan's expected veto of the current measure...
...resolution minus the neutrality clause is"no help to the union at all. That's an insult tothem," said cosponsor Robert H. Greenstein '89,who said he would like the bill to return tocommittee. "You might as well withdraw it--it'smeaningless...
...instead of $92,885,000. The mistake loomed large this month when McLean Industries, parent firm of United States Lines, sold the ships for $67 million. In a settlement approved by a federal court last week, McLean agreed to give Prudential the proceeds from the sale of the ships -- minus $11 million. That was the price McLean demanded for disregarding the missing zeros...