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...more stars than there are in heaven, to use MGM's old motto. Throughout the weekend, rockets will glare, bands will blare, sails will billow, pigeons swoop and spectators whoop; 200 square dancers will hop, 300 tap dancers will bop, Frankie Avalon and Francis Sinatra will croon while audiences swoon, and more than 12,000 immigrants will pledge undying allegiance to their new country...
What the United States needs to do in Central America is to swoon Nicaragua away from the Soviet Union. Currently, the administration philosophy is that communism is an incurable cancer which must be rooted out violently. But we have other cures available to us which do not have the pernicious side effects of warfare. Let's spend our money efficiently on economic aid to that nation. Something the Soviet Union doesn't have the funds...
...Road Warrior sequel to be released this summer. For the latest installment of the adventure series, set in postapocalypse Australia, Turner, 46, plays Aunty Entity, the hardhearted ruler of a barbaric outpost known as Bartertown. No, love's got nothing to do with it; instead of falling for Swoon Symbol Mel Gibson, 29, Aunty becomes Mad Max's archenemy. Says the leggy singer: "I used to think I'd like to do Cleopatra, but now I really want to play tough women." Good grief, does this mean escalating beyond flinty Aunty in her chain-mail dress...
Just then, that boy, Kirk DesHotels dismounted and ran for a chicken. The rules are that all chickens must be chased on foot. The chicken got away. A | tourist, a blond Tennessean with looks that beg a swoon, approached young Kirk to share a word. He gave her one of those long moist looks of love everlasting, as she read it. "I allllmost caught that chicken," he said, and it was then she realized it was the chase that held his passion...
Throughout the week, Reagan's fabled luck held. Wall Street, always easily spooked by phantoms, went into a sudden swoon just before the State of the Union speech; traders bid the Dow Jones industrial average down almost eleven points on a rumor that the President had decided not to run. That only underscored Reagan's popularity among investors. Soviet President Yuri Andropov, of all people, gave Reagan an indirect boost by issuing a generally conciliatory statement hinting at possible resumption of Washington-Moscow nuclear-arms-control negotiations. By Sunday night Reagan was ready for a party. He summoned 400 campaign...