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From the steamy promotional material to the film's none too subtle previews, Impulse would appear to possess all the necessary credentials to qualify as a low-budget fleshbath. Yet from its outset, the film works to counter that temptation. In fact, with the exception of one brief sex scene, ironically distinguished by its lack of nudity, sex is essentially absent from this film...
Since the outset of the campaign, both parties have unabashedly conceded that 1984 is a pivotal year in American politics. In fact, it is notably the one point on which both candidates strongly concur. The November election will determine--among other things--whether the world according to Roosevelt is still alive and well, and if the American public is indeed as self-centered as social critics maintain. It is, as Mr. Mondale himself pointed out in San Francisco, more than a contest of personalities; it is, in effect, a contest of two fundamentally different conceptions of what America represents...
...patriotism that many people tried to unfurl during the Bicentennial have erupted without embarrassment. It's not as though there were no more divisions in the country ... But on every side, there has suddenly appeared a need to express national unity, to demonstrate an unashamed patriotism." From the outset, Reagan benefited from this yearning: the hostages left Iran on his Inauguration...
...burdens of governing. No longer could they snipe from the sidelines; they had to learn to make compromises and lubricate the legislative wheels. The experience has been sobering. Majority Leader Baker, the son-in-law and political heir of Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois, warned at the outset that supply-side economics would be a "riverboat gamble"; now he worries about how to cut the resulting federal deficits ($195 billion last year). State Governors, of course, have long since struggled to balance budgets. The pragmatist wing of the party includes Illinois Governor James Thompson and Vermont...
...before long, the freeways were clogged again. Doomsaying undoubtedly cleared the roads at the outset of the Games, but Bradley is convinced that municipal pride helped keep them passable...