Word: onslaughts
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...onslaught started with 5:27 left on the clock, when the team's scoring leader. Dianne Hurley, notched her 12th goal of the season, on a picturesque deflection of a pass from Vicki Palmer...
...approach a renewed onslaught of "toxic waste dumps, polluted rivers and smog-choked cities," people had better realize that behind every Anne Gorsuch stands Ronald Reagan and his wealthy, Big Business, damn-the-public cronies. Their environmental shortsightedness appalls me. I, for one, will not forget at the next election...
...continuing Republican onslaught against social spending threatens to fill even more cities with the blocks of rubble and zones of poverty that pockmark New York, Detroit, and other major metropolises. Unemployment in many hovers well over 10 per cent. Among Black city dwellers, it is unconscionably high--16.1 per cent overall and 42 per cent for Black teenagers. The $31 billion in budget cuts proposed by Stockman will only make those statistics worse, as job training programs, unemployment compensation, and large chunks of other welfare programs go by the boards...
That quiet Sunday television interlude before the onslaught of football, a time given over to the earnest sobriety of Washington interviews with public figures, has been broken at last. In place of ABC's Issues and Answers, there now looms the hour-long This Week with David Brinkley, the creation of ABC's Roone Arledge, who also invented Monday Night Football. After a wobbly start, the Brinkley show looks like a true innovation in television journalism. In its eerie interview by satellite with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and then in its commentary afterward-which matched Gaddafi word...
...doctrinaire serialism. For all his radical leftist politics, Henze's own music is on the musical right. In a way, he is the Brahms of his day, writing in forms such as symphony, concerto and oratorio, preserving the traditional structures in the ace of the avant-gardist onslaught. Henze has mixed idioms freely throughout his career: harshly dissonant modernism, soaring lyricism and frankly tonal conservatism. But the glue that holds his work together is its humanism. Henze's music is meant to be played and listened to by people, not computers. With serialism now in some disrepute...