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...controls and his advisers seem opposed even to voluntary guidelines that would set numerical standards. What kind of wage-price policy does that leave? Okun suggests a series of "prayer meetings" at which Administration officials will urge business and labor leaders in general terms to make sacrifices for the sake of noninflationary growth. He also forecasts a highly informal "prenotification" standard−a request that businessmen and labor leaders inform the new President privately of planned wage and price hikes and discuss their justification in advance. Pechman, director of economic studies at Brookings, urges that Carter appoint a new chairman...
Then there's a piece called "Funky Chic," where Wolfe trains his guns on, for God's sake, the dress styles of radicals and pseudo-radicals. It's Wolfe's idea that he never met any radicals or anyone concerned with social change who dressed in jeans. True movers, says Wolfe, dress upwardly-mobile, in something called "funky chic." He mourns that the funky chic clothing stores of his days at Yale are sadly gone--Brooks Brothers, J. Press. This is an interesting idea in itself: to be oppressed you must be J. Pressed...
...well-tailored richie called Devereau (Patrick McGoohan), who is embroiled in an unlikely scheme to protect his art forgeries. Suspense movies are not supposed to make perfect sense, but it is always nice when they come close. Hiller and Higgins toy with sorting out the plot only for the sake of appearances and waste a good deal of energy reaching for laughs. The result is compounded confusion, relieved only by one novel touch. This must be the first train movie in which the hero keeps getting thrown off the train. It is a nice gag, which has the added advantage...
...strapping fellow with two quarts regular, four skim and a pint of buttermilk. In the ensuing tumble they made a gallon of egg nog and two ice cream bricks. Another result of the wrangle was a fine little boy who was born speaking high-school French. For respectability's sake Cheryl has always tried to claim that I was in some way responsible for little Andre's occurrence, but I know this to be a falsehood. For one thing, no one in my family has ever been interested in picking up empties on Mondays and Thursdays. Besides that...
...that shoppers focus exclusively on the carefully lighted merchandise. The scheme works too. Sales are booming, reports Burdine's chairman, Melvin Jacobs. Walker puts the message another way in the stenciled words on one of the paintings he does on the side: ARS GRATIA PECUNIAE-art for the sake of money...