Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motel units, 103 campsites, four restaurants, three gas stations, 17 stores, miniature golf, a train ride through the woods, not to mention a 200-foot observation sombrero, all based on a Mexican theme filtered through several layers of bias, ignorance and Hanna-Barbera. As the brochure says, "Ees onlee wan South of the Border, Amigos, where Pedro has put eet all together to make ze mos' excite vacation stop between La Canada and Key West! Ees leetle Mexico on 100 acres weeth 300 beeyooteefool rooms, shops, 3 sweem pools, par 3 golf, light-up tennis courts, gorjous landscape gardens, plus...
...aides, he analyzed every significant governmental issue. The Stockman summaries became a crucial part of G.O.P. strategy. Each committee report-some running to hundreds of pages -was read and boiled down to a few sheets. "We worked a lot of nights into the wee hours," says Stockman with a wan smile. Nor was that flood of hundreds of congressional initiatives his only fare. When Nixon proposed chopping 112 federal programs in 1973, Stockman and his loyal band delved into each...
This perceived national mood, combined with the basic human fascination with myth, has prompted some of the most successful of the new pseudo-mythical, comic book adventure films. Star Wars bears similarities to several ancient myths, including the Arthurian legend (note the parallels between Luke Skywalker and Arthur, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Merlin, etc.) and it seemed only a matter of time until a major studio would turn to an original tale and package it as a suped-up blockbuster. Whatever the social or corporate logic behind its conception. Boorman has made Excalibur an exhilirating, hugely entertaining film...
PHILADELPHIA--Two old women are sitting under the clock at Wan-namakers department store. "I'm so proud of my son," one says. "He's a Congressman, you know...
Today, the old Maoist disapproval of material incentives has been replaced with its opposite-a recognition that the chance to get richer will make people work harder. Wan cites the way local farm communes no longer have to produce solely according to a state quota system but can decide for themselves what to grow to satisfy local market conditions. Says he: "They are in a better position to know what to plant-and they can become richer." Under the old system, factories produced according to fixed quotas and turned over virtually all of their profits to the state. Now about...