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This is the new society that Margaret Atwood strives to find in Dancing Girls, her new collection of short stories. Her vision, however, lacks the optimism of Friedan's fostering nervousness instead. At times her characters catch glimpses of a freer society, but they cannot transcend their mundane and cruel provincialism...
...psychological impact of the voting results may well transcend the practical outcome. If Republicans minimize their losses, it will give Reagan a new surge of perceived authority to continue the course he has set. A Democratic landslide would frighten even those Republicans who were spared defeat into taking a more independent line from the White House. Indeed, the symbolic importance attached to the outcome could be self-fulfilling: even though the election is really a collection of 504 unrelated races, if both Democrats and Republicans increasingly view it as a referendum on Reagan's economic policies, the election could...
...sense of humor for us when he was really active in past years," says band Drill Master Mike McClung '83. "Technically, he wasn't the greatest player, and indeed he was part of the infamous third trumpets who have the least complicated parts to play. But he managed to transcend his lack of musicality with his antics," adds former Stuyvesant classmate and fellow bandmember Millard Darden '83. "Most of the people in the band are just crazy and so is Anders. It was a perfect...
...judgment at last. It will impose discipline upon a nation that has felt itself losing control in a thousand ways, control not only of its money but its morals and its neighborhoods and its place in the world. The balanced-budget amendment is a metaphorical gesture with meanings that transcend the fiscal...
This sequence succeeds entirely through Manoff's performance Although the part demands surprisingly little of her Manoff manages to transcend the limitations of the cliche-ridden script and to portray Libby as a real person, not merely a mouthpiece for Neil Simon's jokes...