Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-olds told the TIME Yankelovich poll that they are Democrats and 24% said they are Republicans, 38% called themselves independents. "The Baby Boomer vote is never going to be in either party's hip pocket," says Republican Political Consultant Lee Atwater. Their political views tend to be a mix: they are conservative on economic matters and distrustful of Big Government. Yet they are liberal on social issues like women's rights and abortion, and wary of the moral preachments of the New Right. Nor has the generation that marched for civil rights entirely lost its zeal for racial equality...
...poor, riding through rough country on horseback to visit impoverished backwoods villages. Though he has unquestionably gained stature in the course of his showdown with the Sandinistas, Obando remains a humble man, reluctant to venture far into the power game. "We, the bishops and the priests, shouldn't mix the church with party positions," he said last week in an interview with TIME. "It will divide the church. It is not our role...
...course, Richard Pryor does have the right to cull interesting events from real life, mix in some exaggeration and good old-fashioned melodrama and call it art. And, of course, it would be much more vainglorious and self-glorifying for anything called, say, Down and Out With Richard Pryor, to be more than a made-for-TV movie...
...lapel button bears the query WHERE'S THE BUDGET? The short answer is: Nowhere. Last week Congress missed the April 15 deadline for passing a budget resolution for fiscal 1987. While President Reagan refused to compromise on the unpopular budget he proposed last February, Congress continued squabbling over the mix of domestic and military spending and whether to raise taxes, ignoring the timetable, set by the Gramm-Rudman Act, which it considered so urgent last year. Shrugged House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "We miss all kinds of deadlines around here...
Cleavant Derricks, who won a Tony in the show-business musical Dreamgirls, finds a kind of heroism as Big Deal's hapless gang leader, a onetime boxer who keeps getting knocked down by life and rising to scrabble anew. His Dreamgirls partner Loretta Devine brings off an almost impossible mix as a housemaid duped into abetting the robbery: she is sexy, touchingly innocent, screamingly funny and, perhaps most astonishing in a feminist era, inoffensively but decisively dumb...