Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...across-the-board cut in what are called "nondefense discretionary programs." This would touch on almost every domestic program directly funded by Congress, from farm subsidies to urban aid programs. If approved, the reductions could lead to the elimination of 75,000 Government jobs and a saving next year of $8.4 billion. Unlike the all encompassing single vote Reagan had on his earlier budget proposals, reductions for each agency and program must be fought individually this time around-and the battles are sure to be furious...
...past six weeks, the Administration seems to have lost some of its magic touch, and Reagan can no longer even count on the solid support of his own party. He is entering a crucial period when the very substance of his economic philosophy is being tested by reality and challenged by Congress. But the President remains an irrepressible optimist. As he grappled with his economic predicament and the recalcitrance on Capitol Hill last week, he told an old joke about the ever-hopeful little boy who finds himself standing amid a pile of horse manure on Christmas morning. The punch...
...Broadway musical One Touch of Venus he wrote lyrics of consummate style...
...film might have been made in the 1940s, when "regional" writers were charting new corners of the American subconscious and film makers like Frank Borzage and Clarence Brown were spring-cleaning old work clothes and folkways. If there is an intrusive touch of modernism, it comes from Shepard, the playwright whose Buried Child and The West tunnel into the dreams of the rural working class, and then explode them. As the haunted "raggedy man," Shepard lurks at the edges of the film's life, giving it texture and menace and meaning. But Spacek is the center. Until...
...Supreme Court," says James Bryce in The American Commonwealth, "feels the touch of public opinion." That is for sure, and there is a further truth: public opinion, or incensed parts of it, sometimes tries to reach the federal judiciary with a bit more than a touch-with a brisk left hook, say, or a fast right cross. One of those times is at hand: congressional leaders of the New Right are avidly mounting a serious assault on the power, authority and prestige of the federal courts...