Word: solider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Texas liberals, who can be counted on to poll a solid 30 per cent of the vote just about any time, have learned their lesson. In 1961 hordes of them defected to vote for a small-time Republican political science professor named John Tower, thinking a good liberal could beat him easily the next time around. But Tower was shrewder than they had expected--he managed to build up a base of support that has sustained him in office. This election year marks the most serious challenge Tower has faced since he first went to Washington...
...coming up with solid and coherent general education programs, the two schools reasserted the importance of undergraduate liberal arts...
After this solid lead-in of shorts, the Allen film is disappointing. Throughout the film producer/-director Allen Mantell consistently fails to probe hard enough, whether out of respect for Allen's privacy or out of deference to a comedian/social observer of Allen's stature. While Mantell does cover some of the relevant bases, he ignores key leads to the problem at hand. For instance, in the half-hour we hear nothing of Allen's fifteen years of psychoanalysis, although that process has probably provided Allen with a larger portion of his humor than any other single factor. Allen does...
...very hard to believe Brown's picture of a solid, loving female community in 1920, when she has a woman of that time call someone a flaming asshole. The seams show throughout...
Shanghai boasts China's best department store. Called Number One, the stark, cavernous but well-stocked emporium attracts 100,000 shoppers a day. There are always eager crowds, but no lines, around the toy counter, which offers such items as a huge stuffed panda for $47, a solidly built dump truck for about $4.75, and a battery-powered submachine gun for $6.25. A Shanghai-made black-and-white TV set costs around $428, a solid-state radio $33. A nice chess set goes for $8.50, good basketball shoes for $5.25. The high-collared Chung-shan chuang, the so-called...