Word: notions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...magazine in which this ad ran must be Cosmopolitan or Glamour or even Better Homes and Garden--one of the mass circulation women's magazines that has survived the women's movement and settled comfortably in this post-feminist age. The magazines which speak to notion that women work but secretly worry more about sex, having babies and getting married than about the presidential election and the trade deficit. The magazines that feature articles on "10 Ways to Get and Keep a Man" or "My Garden, My Hobby." One would assume that harmless articles like that would appear...
...least she's in good company. The shopworn notion that America has been living on credit cards, that the party has to end, that there's no free lunch, and so on and so forth, is not the sole possession of Democratic politicians (who, like Republicans, don't propose to do anything serious about it anyway). Variations on this theme are played in two new books by past heads of President Reagan's own Council of Economic Advisers. Murray Weidenbaum says in Rendezvous with Reality, "We are consuming more than we are producing, borrowing more than we are saving...
...argument led naturally to a clash over tax policy. Bush stoutly defended his proposal to cut the capital-gains tax rate from its current 28% to 15%. Dukakis jumped on this notion as a tax cut "for the wealthiest 1%" of Americans. But a reference by Dukakis to the need to bring interest rates down gave Bush an easy shot at the 21.5% that existed at one point under President Carter...
...virtue of Anna Hamilton Phelan's script, Michael Apted's direction and Sigourney Weaver's strong, stark performance that they resist sentimentalizing Fossey. The filmmakers seem content with the notion that saintliness is a form of lunacy. For their lack of conventional biopic piety, they deserve respectful gratitude...
Cantabridgians, from President Bok to Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, first actively disputed the notion that the University is a vast Democratic think tank united behind the Dukakis campaign...