Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Terms of Endearment. Morals, mortality, even a mid-life crisis or two are all subjects for James L. Brooks' rich, sweet, sad comedy. Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger strike sparks and smiles as the middle-American mother and daughter...
Israeli officials have told TIME that the new Reagan-Shamir agreement included a "secret unwritten understanding" under which the U.S. would concentrate on protecting the oil-rich Arab gulf states against Iran, while Israel would help the U.S. handle the Syrian threat in Lebanon. According to the Israeli sources, Shamir also indicated that he would try to discourage Jewish groups in the U.S. from opposing American efforts to bolster moderate Arab governments...
Robin Hood," who stole from the poor to give to the rich. "The old minorities in coalition are the new majority!" Jackson cried, bringing the mostly white male audience to its feet. Marveled a Glenn aide: "If we had a speaking contest, Jesse would win." Agreed Rollings: "Jesse's having a big time...
Those disadvantages were compounded by a decision to dispatch the 28 planes in a "target rich" stream that gave the Syrian gunners a greater opportunity to adjust their weapons. "It's not so bad if you're the lead plane," says a U.S. pilot with experience in the Viet Nam War, "but if you're number five or eight, or worse, 28, you're going to catch hell." It seems likely that the two downed planes and a third that escaped with minor damage were hit with concentrated bursts of conventional antiaircraft or machine-gun fire...
Though the list is endless, there are still a number of special interest groups that need to be told they are no better off than the rest of the country: WASPs, hispanics, Asian-Americans, football players, fire- and policemen, Harvard professors, Catholics, and rich Presbyterians...