Word: soft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael Dukakis or Jerry Brown, to pioneer a new politics by combining liberal positions on moral or social issues with fiscal conservatism. Kucinich does the reverse. Believing "economic democracy is a precondition to political democracy," he emphasizes declining public services, unjust taxes, corporate power and other economic issues while soft-pedaling social concerns unpopular with his white ethnic constituents. Kucinich claims public housing is unwelcome in both black and white neighborhoods, and he says busing leads to white flight and resegregation...
...apparent reason; Bertolucci never integrates this incest into the broader context of film. The only truly startling moment in the film occurs when Joey plunges a for into his arm. That's shocking. The single men who came with hats over their laps were sorely disappointed; Luna is not soft-core porn for the artsy...
...honors for himself for the second time in as many weeks. At 38, the Pirates' captain batted .400, drove in seven runs and pounded three home runs, adding four doubles to set a World Series record for extra-base hits. Perhaps more crucial, the imposing but soft-spoken first baseman helped to shore up his teammates' morale when, after slogging through some of the most miserable World Series weather in history, they fell behind Manager Earl Weaver's efficient Oriole machine, three games to one. "All we need is three one-day winning streaks," Stargell calmly pronounced...
Five years later, Hounsfield attacked the same puzzle for EMI, solved it in much the same way and applied it first to a prototype computerized head scanner, then to a body scanner, both of which EMI patented. These devices were able to distinguish soft tissues and organs and spot abnormalities by producing television images shaded according to the density of the tissue. Since then, widespread use of the scanner has drawn critics who argue that the machine's hefty price-up to $700,000 and more-drives up the cost of medical care at hospitals that could...
...going in another direction." Like the Burt Reynolds character in Starting Over, the bearded Brooks, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lytton Strachey, apparently had a slow recovery from divorce. "I would go out on a date," he says, "and have difficulty breathing." But he finally had a soft landing into a second marriage, with Holly Holmberg, a stewardess for Northwest Airlines. Since then his chief emotional setback has been the destruction of his Malibu house in a giant brushfire last year. "It was the only thing I had ever owned," he observes sadly...