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...conference confirmed his decision: he will put off all consideration of tax boosts until January. Meanwhile, he will press for a further cut of 12%, or $13 billion, in fiscal 1982 spending on top of the $35 billion reduction already passed. Said the President: "This Government must stiffen its spine and not throw in the towel on our fight to get federal spending under control...
...charity, they said, quoting St. Paul. The odd, vivid term sometimes used for it was backbiting. The word suggested a sudden, predatory leap from behind-as if gossip's hairy maniacal dybbuk landed on the back of the victim's neck and sank its teeth into the spine, killing with vicious little calumnies: venoms and buzzes...
...doesn't want you to dislike the people he plays. Redford retains a glamorous remoteness and passivity that doesn't stray far from good American-Eagle values. It's stability and studiness. but DeNiro gets to American from a different angle. He works his way up the spine and into the buzzing, seething mass of semi-methodical madness in the brain. He goes as far into his characters as he can go, always probing for that pure, nuclear core of nonfissionable personality that is at the nexus...
...Monday night, third-place Milwaukee, a dynamic, powerful ballclub hitting its stride in the season's final days, arrives at Fenway Park for an old-time, chills-down-the-spine September series...
...replied Jean-Luc Godard. "But not necessarily in that order." In the past two decades, movies have gone Godard's way: end up. Even in Hollywood, structure is now a word you are apt to hear only from Bel Air real estate agents. Adventurous directors snapped the straight spine of traditional drama into a series of vertebral vignettes. The standard comedy structure, which had kept stage and screen humming from Labiche to Lubitsch, gave way to anthologies of slapstick punctuated by expletives. The story became so much dead air between explosions of pain and laughter. And so the question...