Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such thing as a good Vice President or a bad Vice President?a Vice President is simply a hypothesis on hold. John Nance Garner, Vice President in Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms, said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss"?a phrase the listening reporter bowdlerized to "warm spit...
...federal aid to dependent children. Most of the 3.7 million families on that program are headed by women. In 1982 and 1983, $5 billion was cut from the federal food stamp program. Women and children are 85% of the recipients. "The feminization of poverty" is a powerful catch phrase. It may haunt Reagan. "You can talk about the importance of union members, or the importance of blacks," says University of Michigan Pollster Michael Traugott. "But none of these groups compare in size to adult females...
...what superior popular moviemaking is all about: using high technology and a cheerfully bonkers creativity to reach, and elevate, the lowest common denominator. A one-film movie festival that is blessedly its own unique self, Gremlins is perhaps best characterized by Co-Star Hoyt Axton's suggestive phrase: "E. T. with teeth...
...have developed in particular categories of weapons or regions of the world. But the Administration seemed, certainly to Soviet ears, to be making a provocative political statement, especially when Reagan spoke of the need to establish what he called "a margin of safety." There is no question how that phrase translated into Russian: the Soviets were convinced that the U.S. was determined to force them back into a position of inferiority...
That strategy is only partly successful, since West prefers the exaggerated phrase. His father is "a very big man indeed." As for Wells' opponents, Henry James is charged with literary dictatorship and George Bernard Shaw with "Stalinism." And yet the author's praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic fiction owes its very existence to Wells. He was, as Joseph Conrad wrote, a "realist of the fantastic." In The World Set Free, he predicted the atom bomb; in The Island of Dr. Moreau, organ transplants; in The War of the Worlds, laser beams. Wells also produced a vast body...