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...Plain Song HONKYTONK MAN Directed by Clint Eastwood Screenplay by Clancy Carlile...
...little more complicated. Not only do politicians rarely have a clear notion of the technical features of their own legislation, Grieder claims, but they also are usually powerless against the forces that distort and emasculate even the most comprehensive proposals--inertia, political horse-trading, special interest greed, and just plain human error. In such an "anarchic" milieu, Grieder says, grand conceptions about "the way the world works"--in Stockman's case, supply-side economics--fall by the wayside, and their beliefs lapse into cynical despair...
...problems with this constructive and upbeat vision, to be sure. It's not clear from Grieder's formulation how a new wave of media-inspired citizen activists will be any different from the old wave (Nader's Raiders, say, or even the Moral Majority) which has ossified into plain old special interest group politics. Grieder also doesn't assess the practical likelihood of the "reinvention" of news reporting, a revolution that seems unlikely given the growing economic constraints on newspapers and the inherent time limitations of network news shows. Still Grieder rightly observes, "American democracy is in trouble...
Fold half the whipped topping into the pudding and layer this mixture on next. Then make another layer of cake, jam fruit, and almonds, and top with plain whipped topping...
...tissue, there is a common majesty, a simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...