Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four years later, Ronald Reagan is still rich America's president. Jesse Jackson is still the other America's candidate, and this time around, that other America is increasingly white or Hispanic. He finished second in Minnesota and Maine, after all. This time around, Jesse Jackson is running for president; he is not running as the leader of Black America...
Michael Dukakis is the man among all the presidential contenders who has consistently shown his desire to address the needs of all Americans. His record has not favored the rich or the poor, but has treated all fairly with an aim toward social justice and sensitivity from the government. His record as a chief executive and his inherent integrity show that he is the man who can succeed in this effort. We support him for the Democratic Presidential nomination...
...favor of a balanced budget amendment--is hardly motivated by the platitudinous and knee-jerk reasons given by the other candidates who favor the amendment. Correctly, Simon observes that unbalanced budgets raise interest rates and in that way facilitate one of the largest income transfers--from poor to rich--supported by the Reagan administration. Even if the legislation would curtail important flexibility in the budget-making process, his reasoning asks the right questions, questions whose class analysis is unparalleled in the current campaign...
...sacrifice their lives to his faintly absurd beliefs. After he dies, they devote themselves to his memory by keeping his dwindling, aging, increasingly fractious flock together. Their story, stretching over many years, is told with deft economy and quiet wit by Writer-Director Gabriel Axel, who builds an uncannily rich texture out of the simplest materials. Still, the viewer muses, this picture is called Babette's Feast. Where is Babette? Where is her feast...
...thighs exerted in turns, just as he shifted weight from ski to ski. La Bomba calls himself the "greatest" and resembles a pair of young lovers holding hands, except that there is just one of him. It is impossible to take offense. The new phenom announced happily that his rich father would buy him a Ferrari for his win, and no one seemed to mind...