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...veered sharply to the right when it turned to Reagan, but the probable truth of the matter is that most of the country had simply stepped firmly to the right of center. As conservatives sensed, the country had been an incubative conservative since the late '60s. Only Nixon's muck-up could have delayed their eventual birth and triumph. Sick and tired of the vast, clogged federal machine; sick and tired of being broke; fed up with useless programs, crime, waste, guilt; not to mention shame in the eyes of the world?derision from our enemies, dismay from our allies?...
...first "realistic acting role," one that is "less of a cartoon than any I've done before." It takes him 14,000 ft. up in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains, where he portrays a Mike Royko-like Chicago reporter who has raked so much local muck that his editors have decided to pack him off to the Rockies on a harmless little nature story. There are no racked-up police cars, no food fights, no mashing of beer cans. And no, Belushi does not fall off Purgatory Peak. He falls in love...
...assumption that more men watch in the first hour than in the second, each of the shows concentrates on hard news early on. Today's Washington correspondent, Richard Valeriani, usually interviews a politician in that hour, for example; Good Morning's Jack Anderson rakes the muck at 7:10; and Morning's business correspondent, Ray Brady, discusses the impact of high interest rates on the housing industry at 7:45. By 8, the workingmen and -women have presumably left-along with Morning-and NBC and ABC turn their attention to housewives...
...case oy Alan Balsam, a dining hall chief shop steward suspended for cooking hamburgers too long--in the middle of a particularly feisty round of contract negotiations. Even if persecuted union leaders take the University to court, their cases tend to get mired in the legal system's muck, passing stage after stage until, maybe five laters, they win. They come out wiser, but not richer, for the experience...
...campaign ads, a hard-hatted stevedore bellows: "Give 'em hell, Helen." But the modestly budgeted race (neither is expected to spend more than $200,000) goes beyond personalities. Long for many years has blocked proposals to dredge Baltimore harbor because he objected to the dumping of the polluted muck around two uninhabited islands in his district. The islands are favorite anchorages for Chesapeake Bay boaters and crab fishermen, who are anxious to keep the waters clean. But Bentley, who has dubbed herself "the Fighting Lady" after the World War II aircraft carrier Yorktown, insists that the harbor must...