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Only in the land of Tinsel Town could there be such a race. The Republican incumbent, Robert Dornan, 47, is a former B-movie actor and Emmy-winning TV talk show host. His challenger is Democrat Carey Peck, 31, son of Gregory Peck and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and Senate aide. The set: a onetime Republican stronghold that includes the Los Angeles suburbs of Santa Monica, Venice and Marina del Rey. Voters run the gamut from Ronald Reagan to Jane Fonda. Allows a Republican official: "The district is eccentric...
...hottest show out of the West, competing with Disneyland and the tinsel of Hollywood. Visitors are flocking to it by the thousands. For sheer suspense it rivals even Hitchcock, continually hinting of ominous new surprises. The sulfurous center of all this attention is Mount St. Helens, site of the largest volcanic explosion in the U.S. in more than 60 years...
Your story took a negative view of one of the best terms ever served by an American President. Jimmy Carter is an honest, peacemaking leader. He stands in true contrast to the tinsel-covered figure of Ronald Reagan...
...pouring from his face, his voice hoarse, his eyes coldly angry, Carter gave a shouting stump speech unlike almost any he has delivered before, in content as well as manner. It was a headlong assault on his rival, Ronald Reagan, depicting him as a dweller in "a world of tinsel and make-believe" who would "launch an all-out nuclear arms race" and start "an attack on everything that we've done in the achievement of social justice and decency in the last 50 years." The nation, Carter cried, faces "a choice between two futures": a Democratic future of "security...
...view in a black-and-white photograph of an industrial wasteland by Roswell Angier: in the foreground, framed by a windshield and side-window, we see the blurred silhouette of a rearview mirror, a woman's blanketed back, a squinting Indian girl and a stop sign ornamented with a tinsel Christmas tree. In the background: a chainlike fence, grain silos, and cylinders of gasoline mounted on flatcars--all of this presented with illimitable, understated bitterness and a quality of throwaway grace...