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...Waterbury, Conn., town green, he was highly visible but almost invulnerable. His handlers continue to limit his contact with insistent journalists and give him vague, breezy speeches to deliver to friendly crowds. His upbeat rhetoric in Waterbury was quintessential Reagan: "We say America should shoot for the stars, strive for the best and, like our Olympic athletes, go for it." The strategy seemed clear: keep people smiling, and avoid potentially unbecoming wrangling with Mondale on matters of substance...
...film is, of course, valuable not simply as a murder mystery, but also as a penetrating examination of changing attitudes of both Blacks and whites-the former beginning to strive for his equal place in society, the latter, begrudgingly, beginning to accept it. Armed with intelligence and confidence, Davenport represents the changing American Negro-the connection between the scraping and subservience of the past, and the pride and self-satisfaction of the future...
...rungs on the evolutionary ladder. In The Clan of the Cave Bear, now filming in northwestern Canada, Hannah portrays a young Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a tribe of less developed Neanderthals. Based on Jean Auel's bestselling novel, the movie, due next summer, will strive for authenticity, a fact that Hannah finds chilling. "They drop us in the middle of a glacier, and we're dressed in skins." Hannah was also cool about the wearing of animal pelts ("I'm sort of against it"). Besides, to prepare for their prehistoric personas, Hannah and the rest...
...found such items of acknowledged excellence, but high price, as Dunhill cigarette lighters, Rolex watches or Leica cameras. Sears does not try to lead the customer to new and esoteric, and sometimes useless, products. Says Joseph Batogowski, senior executive vice president of merchandising: "We are a mass merchant. We strive to carry not avant-garde goods, but the current state of mass America...
...band will strike up Happy Days Are Here Again, the party leaders will clasp hands in the traditional victory salute. Banners will wave, rhetoric will flow. When the Democrats meet next week in San Francisco to nominate a ticket for the 1984 election, they will strive mightily to stage a tableau of unity and shared purpose...