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...woman I can't have: to take out a big bowie knife and cut and cut. I go to the movies instead. I loved Halloween. That was a hell of a good movie, all the aggression at the heart of every horror film distilled into this pale, clean little engine, its camera gliding from baby-sitter to baby-sister while director John Carpenter applied the organ music like an expert masseur...
...these other problems pale by comparison to the damage done by Stockman's revelations. By saying that "supply siders have gone too far...they created this nonpolitical view of the economy, where you are going to have big changes and abrupt turns, and their happy vision of this world of growth and no inflation and no pain." Stockman agreed with those critics who have contended all along that Reagan's program for huge defense outlays coupled with tax cuts and social service reductions is a prescription for budget deficits and inequity. Stockman has thus punched a gaping hole...
...wanted him to make and he wrote it out directly." For an hour, Stockman rehearsed the toughest questions his aides could throw at him about the whole affair. Then he went off to face an overcrowded room full of reporters in the refurbished White House press quarters. He looked pale and frightened at first, his attempt at a wan smile quickly fading. Twice he paused in his prepared apology, gulping to regain control of his emotions...
...ideas and careful thinking count more than images and the impression they create. His charges are hardly new, for they mirror perfectly the opinions of more than a few Democratic Congressmen and liberal economists. Republicans had heard such complaints all summer, and the import of such attacks could only pale in contrast to the drubbing the Reagan program received in the nation's financial markets...
...Yale's skull and bone does not settle such lingering questions a what killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and whether they were warm blooded or cold. Yet even the most trivia news from the dinosaur world seems to hold everybody in thrall. Adds Yale Pale ontologist John Ostrom: ''It's good busines for the museum and for Yale...