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...interview in Harper's magazine, budget director David Stockman declares that excess military spending has destroyed the nation's economy. "Ronald's face may have launched a thousand ships, but it's going to sink us all," he says, adding, "I bet I get no supper for saying this...
...heap of trouble. Trouble came last week, in the form of a firm scolding by the president: the 34-year-old director of OMB barely escaped with his job. After the meeting, Stockman again displayed his flair for imagery: it had been a "trip to the woodshed after supper." One can almost picture Ronald Reagan saying "this hurts me a lot more than it hurts you" as he administered a hiding to his favorite...
...publicly for "my poor judgment," "loose talk," "careless rambling" and use of a "rotten, horrible, unfortunate metaphor." Reagan, he said, had given him a verbal thrashing. "My visit to the Oval Office for lunch with the President was more in the nature of a visit in the woodshed after supper," Stockman said. "He was not happy about the way this has developed-and properly...
...Without Supper. Not everything can be blamed on Gary Coleman. The sassy black kid-the slick-speaking bro who scores points off the ofay-goes back to the Good Times of the mid-'70s. But it was Coleman, on Dijfrent Strokes (NBC, Thursdays at 9 p.m.), who parlayed his cheekiness into stardom. And now a horde of white child actors have co-opted the game. It must be stopped...
...Supper Without Bed. Producer-Writer Michael Landon has proved himself a man with a mission. In Little House, a TV movie and now Father Murphy (NBC, Tuesdays at 8 p.m.), he has persistently dramatized one theme: children's fear of bedwetting. Father Murphy, which disposed of this problem in the first episode, provides a home for the frontier orphans who could not fit into Little House but are nonetheless aggressively wonderful...