Word: serials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With good reason. A generation before the movement, Clare Boothe Luce displayed more ambition than Gloria Steinem put together. She led more serial lives and enjoyed more careers than an amalgam of Jane Fonda, Betty Friedan and Sandra Day O'Connor...
...buildup to Ronald Reagan's State of the Union address has been a kind of will-he or won't-he suspense serial that has been running for almost two months. But when he steps before a joint session of Congress and the TV cameras next week, the President will finally provide the answer: yes, he will ask for higher taxes, perhaps $40 billion to $60 billion over the next two fiscal years. If enacted-a very large if-they could extract more money from everyone who buys a beer or a pack of cigarettes or drives...
...release, investigators speculated that the general had already been sentenced to death. There was no indication that any sensitive NATO information had been forced from the general. Said a U.S. official who knows Dozier: "What we're in is a prisoner-of-war situation. Name, rank and serial number-that's all they're going to get. Dozier's not going to make it easy for them...
Possibly as a consequence of such attitudes, cynicism runs deep in Finnish society. Typically, the most popular television serial in the country in recent years was a rendition of The Good Soldier Schweik, the Czechoslovak tale of an apparently dim peasant-soldier who fumbles through World War I, surviving while giving the impression of following orders. Last month 120,000 Finns marched in 54 cities and towns during one of the largest peace demonstrations in the country's history. Even so, pacific sentiment has not taken hold as it has in other Western European countries. Explains a student...
Since Crazy in Berlin, critics and scholars have been trying to make Carlo Reinhart into Berger's alter ego. Retorts the author: "The only thing my character and I share is my Army serial number and a few facts of early life." Like Reinhart, Berger is Ohio-born, his German-French-Irish father was a business manager of the Cincinnati school system. The 105-lb. sophomore played 15 seconds of varsity football for Lockland High when "we were leading about 40-0." And like Reinhart, Berger served in the Army Medical Corps during the Berlin occupation. The aspiring novelist...