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...book's modern narrator, the novel envied the hidden passions underlying the Jane Austen world of garden parties and social proprieties. The contrast of Pinter's parallel stories preserves that envy, for the 19th-century drama features powerfully driven characters whose passions are strong enough to shred apart their lives. The story of the 20th century, on the other hand, concerns the off-hand affair between the two leads, Anna and Mike, during the shooting of the film--a cheap and superficial encounter. The present world is too comfortable, the emotions somehow counterfeit...
...jelly bean talk." New York Democrat Thomas Downey acidly told Treasury Secretary Donald Regan: "I do believe a lot of your assumptions are hallucinogenic." Replied a shaken Regan: "I resent that. To call the Treasury Secretary of America . . ." Downey interrupted: "You cannot cite one statistic, one report, one shred of evidence...
...important than anything uttered on the Cleveland stage by the two quiz show contestants. Few people quarrel with the ultimate goals of Reagan and Carter. But how do we get there? Our Government no longer works, and for four years Carter has proved it; yet he offered not one shred of evidence how he would improve his record, given a second lease on the White House. Nor did Reagan provide the slightest hint of how he might design an Administration that would get off the ground...
Presenting his report in the Pentagon's briefing studio, Holloway said that the plan adopted had "the best chance of success under the circumstances, and the decision to execute it was justified." He added: "We encountered not a shred of evidence of culpable neglect or incompetence...
...their current disarray, the liberal wing of the party, most notably minority and urban Democrats, face an election that could shred whatever solidarity remains. There are three possibilities for the left--it can go for John B. Anderson (R-Ill.), it can split into innumerable blocs, backing the hopeless candidacies of Barry Commoner or socialist David McReynolds or communist veteran Gus Hall, or it can somehow manage to fall in line behind Carter...