Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compromise Joyce's vision; they tactfully illuminate it. Indeed, Huston's handling of this material is so direct, artless and unassertive that one's first enthusiasm for it is tempered by doubt. Perhaps our desire that his last movie represent the best of his several selves is coloring our reaction. Mistrust, however, must yield to Huston's trust of his medium, his material and himself...
Beginning with David Letterman and Johnny Carson, the first reaction of many was to make Hart the butt of a national laugh-in. A front-page Des Moines Register cartoon showed Hart wearing a dwarf costume labeled SLEAZY, as he pushed the other six candidates off a cliff. Hart was also tagged by cartoonists as HORNY and RANDY. A popular Denver radio show held an hour-long phone-in of the latest jokes about him, most of which tended toward the tasteless. One caller said the best Hart joke was that "Gary is running for President...
...Reaction in the Vatican, which flatly opposes condom education, ranged from silence to cold fury. "I would hope they'd get the statement straightened out soon -- before Christmas," snapped a Curia staff member. If the Americans do not act, he vowed, "Rome will." But a ranking Vatican official said no quick response is anticipated. Pope John Paul's thinking may become known in February, when the first of several contingents of American bishops arrives in Rome for periodic in-person reports to the Pontiff...
...week. Economists were encouraged that the record deficit did not send the stock market into a free fall; they remembered well that a less bleak trade report and a drop in the dollar helped trigger the Black Monday crash. The reason for the milder market reaction this time was that investors were no longer afraid that the Administration and the Federal Reserve will try to defend the dollar with higher interest rates...
According to Dr. Robert R. Mayer, oncologist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, current early detection techniques using monoclonal antibodies are all "limited" because some non-cancerous cells can trigger the same reaction as cancerous ones...