Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen times by applause, was upbeat, inspirational and politically calculating. While emphasizing the need for bipartisanship, it was carefully worded to shore up Reagan's points of vulnerability and pre-empt Democratic issues. In classic campaign style, the speech contained something for everyone: for conservatives, a pitch for school prayer; for liberals, a pledge of stepped-up attempts to fight environmental pollution; for hawks, expressions of pride in strengthened military forces; for doves, a repetition of a standard line, this time ostensibly addressed to the people of the Soviet Union, that "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never...
Social Issues. As in the 1980 campaign, Reagan plans to present himself as a champion of family virtues. Whether he will bring up in the State of the Union the right-wing agenda of school prayer, anti-abortion legislation and tuition tax credits was uncertain at week's end, but if he does not, he will probably pitch for it in the campaign. Said one top adviser who has no doubts about the President's candidacy: "He is already talking about pressing the social issues more in the second term than he did in the first...
...much snow," McKinney says, "and I felt like I was training all the time. I think I got worn down by it." The trainer of the women's team, John Atkins, says, "If we put in the same amount of work as the Europeans, we would not have a prayer. We have to work harder, sweat more and cowboy it out. More and more, the elegant, pretty skiing doesn't make it. What wins is the slam and bash and amazing recoveries. When you have 90 women with pretty much the same ability at the top of a hillside...
Moss Hart testified that the prayer of ev ery aspiring playwright was, "Please God, let Jed Harris do my play." Nevertheless, with playwrights from Ben Hecht to Thornton Wilder, he imposed marathon revisions and usually ended by demanding a co-author credit and half the royalties. When he directed Arthur Miller's The Crucible in 1953, he responded to an out-of-town audience's calls for the author by going onstage and taking...
...comic havoc of Noises Off means peril at every step for the actors. Says Garber, who somersaults down a flight of stairs into a pratfall every night: "I still say a little prayer each time I begin...