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...Restraint comes hard for Jesse Helms. "I'm so used to throwing grenades," he told some of his Senate staffers one day, "that I don't know how to hang on to them." It was a revealing comment. for Jesse Helms surely will not hold back. He has built his career on drawing the line, charging forward, preaching the ruthless application of conservative dogma. That is how he got to be the head of Jesse's army. And that is how he finally got invited to the dance...
...socialist development? In the words of Vice-Premier To Huu, "We will be poor and we will be hungry" until the end of this century (Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 Jan. 1981). Ngo Vinh Long may wish to refrain from criticizing the regime. There is no need for such restraint on the part of others, as the regime is doing a fairly good job of crying mea culpa for its appalling economic performance (which, by the way, it is blaming on mismanagement rather than on American hostility and pressures). Meanwhile, the population of Vietnam, North and South, faces the prospect...
Jeanne Affelder is excellent as Meg Dillon., the feisty madame of the whorehouse. With admirable restraint. Affelder gives Meg a touching quality of tarnished dignity. While her early verbal jousts with McCue lack the necessary sarcastic edge, her climatic argument with him in the third act beautifully reveats Meg's reluctant tenderness. As Lestile, the young British hostage. Nick wyse finds the right balance of cynicism and naivete. Like the tenants of the lodging he loves his country, but he doesn't fully comprehend the war-especially when confronted with the possibility of his own execution. Wyse captures Leslie...
...second criticism of the Reagan plan--that it is inflationary--also lacks merit, especially since the cuts are to be accompanied by budgetary and monetary restraint. Economist David I. Meiselman told a Joint Economic Committee in February that there is not dependable correlation between tax rates and inflation. What the data does indicate is that "higher tax rates seem to be associated with higher prices." Meiselman said. This should not be surprising. Inflationary pressures develop when the supply of money exceeds the supply of goods. Overtaxation of production inhibits the supply of goods, thus fueling inflation...
...performance seems a model of restraint next to Williamson's Merlin. The voice sweeps from wail to whisper, from adenoidal giggle to basso preposteroso growl - often in the same sentence. It is a daring display, and an exhilarating one. Merlin is, after all, a man out of time: "Our days are numbered," he declaims to Morgana...