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...There's great concern that the President's mix won't work." Though the alternatives being offered by Hatfield and Domenici differ in specifics, both want to slice more out of the defense budget than the $2 billion requested by Reagan. Predicted Dole: "The Democrats are just going to sit back and see what we propose and then tell us how unfair...
...consumer watchdog that got much of its money from the first federal agency abolished by Reagan, the Community Services Administration. Workers at FRAC wasted no time preparing the first meal to the new specifications. The paltry elementary school menu: 1½ oz. of hamburger (instead of 2 oz.), one slice of white bread (rather than 1½), six French fries, nine grapes, and a 6-oz. (not 8-oz.) glass of milk. The story was picked up by TV news and papers across the country. The New York Times's front-page headline: U.S. ACTS TO SHRINK SCHOOL LUNCH...
...illustrate the effect of the domestic program cuts, a group of Democratic Senators ate the kind of school lunch that would be allowable under new minimum standards proposed by the Agriculture Department-a 1.5-oz. beef and soybean patty, one slice of bread, six french fries, six ounces of milk, and catsup and relish as vegetables. Said Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "This is absolutely obscene." Shortly afterward, Stockman announced that the new proposals would be withdrawn. Said he: "It was a bureaucratic goof...
...Broadway musical ?five lively actors, 70 easy minutes, the audience seated in chairs designed by a Bauhaus sadist?costs the playgoer 230 a minute. A full day with the Nicklebys costs about 200 a minute. And for each pair of dimes you get another generous, nourishing slice of instant cultural history. Most Broadway shows offer a pleasant enough diversion between sunset and bed; Nickleby will become part of your organism, cast a glow for years to come. So sell the Atari, skip a mortgage payment, pawn the children...
What to make of this slice of American pie, this pastoral adagio, this memoir-nightmare? Writer Wittliff has drawn the film's setting and tone from his childhood in a small Texas town off the gulf. Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek), a divorced woman with two sons, works in an isolated house as the town's switchboard operator. She meets a fresh-faced sailor (handsomely played by Eric Roberts); there is a tender affair, another man (Sam Shepard), a pair of resentful layabouts, an abrupt slash of melodrama. Except for the denouement, Raggedy Man proceeds with the even pace...