Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never before, the President's many enemies are gathering for combat -but not for the kill. If anything, the President has the upper hand. Unless Congress can override his vetoes, which is unlikely, many of his cuts will probably stick. But groups that never used to speak to one another are now raising their voices together in a chorus of protest. Farmers and bankers, tenants and landlords, poor blacks and blue-collar whites find that, at least temporarily, they share common grievances...
...than her marriage itself; and he cares more about his stomach and his clothes than about his wife. After Fabray leaves him he spreads his arms in despair and grimaces with suburban uncertainty (about forty times) wondering why she would rather live with a kindly Greek waiter on the upper West Side than share the fruits of his success in the wholesale lighting fixture business...
...Emmy's realization that much of her strength for public struggle comes from her family. However, she retains a sense of loss. The story also gives attention to the radical/conservative split in the ranks of the movement, between those women who rested their case with voting rights for upper class women and those who asked for specific attention to the rights of working women...
...lots of ways this is an uncomfortable book. It isn't a child's Fairy Tale--too much of the humor of the thing is of a mildly sick adult variety, the degenerate offshoot of upper-middle class Broadway comedy, with its pallid neuroses that all the ashamed afflicted can laugh at. Segal also makes a real effort at verbal acrobatics, and falls flat. "Magic beans, the stuff dreams are made of! And also magic vegetable stew," can't qualify as one of the better bits of verbal word play of the late 20th century...
...Louds sit in fascination to watch the series unfold each Thursday night. It shows an attractive, upper-middle-income family with five children -three boys and two girls-in Santa Barbara, Calif. Many scenes in the six episodes shown so far have reflected mundane aspects of domestic life, but some have been unusual. Pat has visited Son Lance, 20, who has taken up a homosexual life in New York City; a brushfire has nearly destroyed the family's four-bedroom home; the antagonism between Pat and Bill has become obvious. Bill comes across as a charming gladhander, while...