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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...closet. What the President had in mind was great paintings of an earlier West, scenes by the likes of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and Charles Russell. Reagan wants the Western feel with class. Curiously, Reagan balances this new formality with his own habit of doing things himself. The sight of Lyndon Johnson sticking out his hand and a hovering steward thrusting in a fresh drink is still remembered around the White House. Reagan gets his own glass of water, when he can. "In the White House there is a fellow there to throw the logs on the fire," he complained...
...Frankfurter and Dean Acheson used to walk to Acheson's office every day. On nice days, I used to pick Frankfurter up at Acheson's office. On rainy days, I used to drive them both to work. But on threatening days, I used to drive slowly and out of sight behind them so I could pick them up if it started to rain," Vorenberg explains...
South Africa digs in confidently, with no end in sight...
...investment finance the mineral exploitation of South African bantustans--as well as domestic ones in North America, paving the way for future nuclear development. As Morton comments, "We get so caught up in the scientific minutiae about "nukes" and related fields that sometimes we feel that we lose sight of the fundamental questions. If we could win the struggle to keep uranium in the ground, then we would indeed have sliced off the head of the nuclear industry and weapons threat." If uranium continues to be mined, it will be used...
...original protagonist shrank from a dose of radiation, Tomlin's happy homemaker would suffer from exposure to the mysterious ingredients in supermarket products: everything from "tumescent tissue of bull scrotum" to a mad scientist's most corrosive chemicals. The audience would know when to laugh: at the sight of a madcap chase, at a friendly gorilla, at Talk Show Host Mike Douglas. The resulting movie is sometimes very funny. It also represents a waltz step toward popular acceptance by a performer tired of being worshiped by the few. Like former cult favorites Chevy Chase and Steve Martin, Tomlin...