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There's token rock and roll number, and one hilarious swipe at the last gasp of the Golden Age of Hollywood, as Buck and his singing group, the High Hopes, don spangled over-alls for "Put the Blame on Mamie (She Painted the White House Pink)" from the smash film that should've been, The Mamie Eisenhower Story.But the show never strays too far from its home, the nite-club, where "Song-stylists" moan torch songs and members of a capella groups strive, in the true spirit of the age, to be utterly indistinguishable from each other...
Besides making reprehensible policy decisions, Bennett began a reign of rhetorical terror, startling both for its outlandish implications and its general incomprehensibility. First, Bennett took advantage of the student aid controversy to take a swipe at both pro-education and pro-divestment activists, saying that wholesale funding cuts might "require for some students divestiture of certain sorts--stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture...
...Institute on Drug Abuse of those who have used cocaine within the previous month, among them many who take the drug only occasionally or are trying it for the first, and perhaps last, time. Said Weisman: "The figures for alcohol abuse dwarf those of all illicit drugs." Taking a swipe at his own employer, he added, "Nor are drugs, as U.S. News & World Report puts it, 'the nation's No. 1 menace.' Not while we still have poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, malnutrition, murder, and the Soviet Union...
...guess you all just couldn't resist the opportunity to take a swipe at George Bush's hypocrisy. In the process, you buy into the same free-market fictions which helped wreck the Rust Belt. I hope that in the future you can look beyond petty regional rivalries and corrupt conservative formulas to see and respond to the real human costs of economic change. Kim Ladin...
...your editorial page, aside from the occasional swipe at American policy in Central America, almost all of your foreign policy editorials deal with the South Africa issue. Many people legitimize this by pointing to the "fact" that Harvard could put real pressure on the South African government, whereas no such pressure could be placed on the Kremlin, for example. There is no foundation for this belief. The Soviet government is very attuned to daily occurences on important American campuses. It is eager to avoid embarrassments such as large university rallies fully covered by student newspapers protesting human rights violations...