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...authority crackdown. "It's archaic, it's arcane, it's stupid," Koch fumed. "It'll raise the price of dinner. You like to get a little bargain now and then. I mean, that's what life is all about." Koch suggested that the SLA suspend its directive...
...advice did not meet with enthusiastic approval at the state agency. Said Anthony Papa of the SLA: "The mayor gets what, $110,000? For him to be brown bagging is ridiculous." Papa then countered with a blatant diversion, urging that Koch suspend the city's crazy-quilt parking regulations. Gibed Papa: "Those aren't too popular, are they...
Director Tony Richardson's faithful adaptation of the living novel is perhaps the movie's greatest fault Irving's prose has a subtle ability to suspend reality and carry the reader smoothly along from one fabuluously bizarre episode to another: But seen on a 15 foot screen these same fabulous events have all the subtlety and appeal of Bozo the clown. For example, the movie's motto "Keep passing the open windows" (i.e. don't jump out) somehow sounds much less embarrassing and trite when you read it in the privacy of your own home than when you hear...
...monthlong visit to Brazil and Argentina, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, who succeeded Pope John Paul II as Archbishop of Cracow, gave the petitioners a sympathetic hearing. But church leaders were not likely to go against the absent Primate and split the church into quarreling factions. Ursus parishioners finally agreed to "suspend" their hunger strike and protests after Nowak appeared at an evening Mass and pleaded with his former congregation to remember that "first of all, I serve the church...
...after the President suspended parts of his proposed secrecy order last week your book may still have a chance to go to press unread. "The Presidents has decided to suspend those parts of the directive," an administration spokesman said, "that are controversial and where there has been a lack of understandings by Congress...