Word: shake
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...displayed in his latest performances is actually an amusing parody of the character type portrayed in Carly Simon's You're So Vain. Beatty was rumored to be the most likely candidate as the real-life model for the song's supremely narcissistic hero. He can't seem to shake off his reputation as an obsessed Casanova, pursuing several women at once while ultimately infatuated with himself. Yet there is something strangely but undeniably likeable about a 40-year-old "naughty...
...himself (those given to psychohistory would argue that they amount to the same thing). Perhaps Nixon will grow old in America as a kind of strange, unregenerate presence viewed with indifference, curiosity or eventually the respect that is accorded, with a short laugh and an incredulous shake of the head, to the unrepentant survivor...
However, the Federal Reserve and the Administration must try to get along. The Fed cannot press a tight-money policy so far as to prevent the Treasury from borrowing enough to cover the budget deficit (that would mean Government failure to pay its bills, which would shake the whole financial structure), but it can foil Administration policy by being tight or loose. So every chairman becomes a nonofficial adviser to the President...
...SEEM to notice, or to care, that the new Nixon talks exactly like the old model--that the speech in Kentucky, for instance, rattled more sabres in a half-hour than the "get-tough" advisers to President Carter have managed to shake up in four months of trying. Nixon's Cold-War rhetoric, his simplistic approach to the problems of minorities, his bloody-axe technique of dealing with essential social services, make up the bewildering philosophy of a man rather remarkably frozen solid to the 1952 Republican platform. Even more bewildering, however, is that he has been able to mask...
Overlaying the wrangle about tax policy is the growing debate on how, after more than three years of solid expansion, to guide the economy into a "soft landing"-to use the current Washington catch phrase. That is, how to shake the wind out of inflation without tipping the country back into recession. More signs of gathering trouble on the price front arrived with last week's reports. The cost of living jumped another .9% in May, which was as bad as the April rise and translates into an annual inflation rate of 11.4%. Once again, the chief villain...