Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American attitudes taken for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly and White Inc.* There are puzzling crosscurrents, of the type that occur in every poll, but the upswing in optimism is unmistakable. In response to the broadest question, "How do you feel things are going in the country these days?" a solid majority of 57% answered either "very well" or "fairly well," vs. only 41% who replied "pretty badly" or "very badly." That marks a striking reversal from the last two polls: in March those who judged the nation to be heading downhill held the lead 54% to 45%, and last December...
...deployment of U.S. missiles in West Germany because "it would mean that, for the first time in postwar history, a military threat again stems from German soil to the Soviet people. There is no need to say what that would mean to us." Kohl, whose self-confidence is as solid as his 6-ft. 4-in. frame, seemed untouched by any sense of historic guilt. It was the Soviet Union, he said, that had upset the balance of power in Europe by its major buildup of SS-20 missiles...
...George (Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?), unknown to most people over 30, is moving millions of adolescent feet. Indeed, all pop music, from heavy metal to soul, is sharing in the revival. Poly-Gram Records Executive Jack Kiernan notes that the recording studios are booked solid again, a sign of long-term stability. Says he: "We're spending for the future...
Long before he met Pryor, Murphy had learned to admire the artist, not imitate his excesses. Pryor was and remains a street kid, always in trouble or on the move, honing his hostility into a fine and angry art. Murphy, as Landis notes, "has solid middle-class values. Put it another way: he's too vain to destroy himself." He does not smoke, drink or use drugs, and even after he hit it big on SNL, he continued to live in his suburban home with his mother, stepfather and half brother Vernon Jr., 16. "Being black has never been...
Despite compelling economic and security arguments for unity, Europeans remain a bunch of squabbling cousins. "What," he wonders, "are the obscure forces preventing the coagulation of Western Europe into a solid whole, as easily as liquid milk curdles into a block of fresh cheese as soon as the rennet is dropped into it?" The most apparent obstacle, he suggests, is national pride, the belief of each country that it alone "has contributed in a decisive manner to European (and the world's) civilization...