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Supporters of liberalizing the 1968 law argue that it was used unfairly against gun dealers who failed to keep adequate records of the sale of firearms and ammunition. The lobby's most effective argument for weakening gun control was still the well-worn Second Amendment guarantee of the right to bear arms. Said Democratic Congressman Harold L. Volkmer of Missouri, sponsor of the House measure: "This body is finally discussing what will truly return constitutional rights to the citizens of this country...
...library--whose special collections hold not only the works of DuBois but those of celebrated Black Achievers William Dawson, Marcus Garvey, W.C. Handy, Charles S. Johnson, John Mercer Langston, Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes--was stretched so thin that in the periodicals section you would be lucky to find a well-worn Ebony and a month-old newsmagazine that someone had snatched from a dentist's office...
Rambo delivers the conclusive cultural death blow, once more reducing to cliche the well-worn notion that violence on TV and in the movie theatre is bad for kids. Sly's Rambo is a bull in the china shop of a young child's mind. Naturally, toy stores are packed with Rambo toys. In the spring, Coleco will release its Rambo product line, coinciding nicely with the premiere of the Rambo Saturday morning cartoon series. The big screen, it seems, is only the beginning...
Admittedly, it takes a lot of elbow grease to put a shine on a play that seems well-worn even before the curtain goes up. The Players took a gamble in dragging The Sorceror off some dusty, dark shelf out into the limelight. Yet at least they could have done it with polish...
...second floor of his 18th century house, Fowles follows a daily regimen of "natural drift" in a jumbled study overlooking the English Channel. He is a fast writer but a slow publisher. Composing "in a haphazard, cockamamy way" on a well-worn manual typewriter, he can turn out a draft of an entire novel in two or three months, but typically holds it for revision over a period of years...