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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race discrimination, but he opposed Government-mandated affirmative action (socalled reverse discrimination) as well. A former chairman of the Yale Daily News who almost became a journalist, he believes fervently in a vigorous press. Purveyeors of hard-core pornography in his view, deserve less protection. In his most famous phrase, Stewart said he could not define pornography, "but, I know it when I see it." He joked last week that the words might turn up on his tombstone...
...only one in the theater who would even bother to try. Here is a show that puts meaning back into the phrase "all singing, all dancing." The show's 30 members are almost always in view and forever on the move: prowling through the junk, licking themselves and leapfrogging one another, prancing down the aisles. Compared with these athletic toms and tabbies, the companies of most Broadway musicals seem positively inert...
...have time for history, but he would like to make history, and there is a good chance that he will. History, in turn, has made him?the immigrant boy, the shoe salesman, the Stevensonian, civil rights-defending liberal Democrat "mugged by reality" in Editor Irving Kristol's phrase, until eventually he became the most recognizable kind of figure in modern American politics: the neoconservative, the crypto-Republican, the Tough-Man Entrepreneur
...appeared that Japanese ships or shadowing Soviet vessels might have been responsible, but the exercises had already been suspended. Finally, Suzuki's apparently successful visit to Washington in May turned into an embarrassment after a joint communique referred for the first time to a U.S.-Japan "alliance," a phrase that to the Japanese connotes a military pact. Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito, who helped draft the dispatch, resigned...
...place, pouring her champagne, cooking dinner and egad!-taking her to bed? The mind boggles-is nothing sacred? But let's face it, times change, and Superman and friend have sweetly embraced the spirit of the '80s as well as each other. They have become-no other phrase will do-swinging singles (PG division) willing to talk things out, show their vulnerability, be mutually supportive in their careers. In the next film they will doubtless negotiate a prenuptial agreement and buy a co-op together...