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...Scum"; she hurdles shrubbery with Garp in a comic pursuit of reckless drivers, outpacing and protecting her friend. In the eerie feminist funeral for Garp's slain mother, where the protagonist must attend in drag, Roberta runs interference for Garp when he is unmasked. Roberta's is the first shoulder upon which everyone cries...
Reagan and Clark hurriedly telephoned key Congressmen and Senators to brief them on the plan. Many agreed with California's Democratic Senator Alan Cranston that the move was dangerous but the U.S. should probably "shoulder some of the risk" for ensuring a peaceful solution in Lebanon. Said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles Percy of Illinois: "We are all reluctant to commit U.S. troops, but it should be considered if that is the only way to evacuate the P.L.O." But there was also considerable wariness about placing American servicemen in jeopardy. Democrat John
...named the team's most valuable player in its title year, and was awarded the Jack Fadden Award his senior year-following shoulder surgery-for performing under a physical handicap...
...only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam and perpetual rain. This baroque Tomorrowland juggles images from a dozen yesterdays: walk out of the rain and into a 1940s world of overhead fan blades and women in shoulder-pad jackets moving to the cadence of a keening alto sax. The filthy streets are clogged with Third World losers and carnivores, while 10 ft. above them the police cars hover, monitoring the future as it molders into chaos...
...accomplished without resorting to massive public borrowing. Her aides have denied rumors about plans to raise taxes. But a tax increase, plus additional pruning of an already sparse budget, seems the only logical course, especially in light of recent polls indicating the public's willingness to shoulder heavier burdens...