Word: welling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, Bush could challenge Gorbachev with courage and imagination. He could ask the Soviets to join the West in making enormous, fundamental cuts in defense spending. This would not be naive pacifism but hardheaded self- interest. It could be a boon to the deficit-choked American economy as well as to perestroika. Rather than negotiating trims in a few weapons programs, Bush could propose demobilizing significant portions of each side's military, testing whether Gorbachev would go along with dismantling whole divisions and reconfiguring forces so as to create a less dangerous world...
WURSTFEST. You can link up with more than 100,000 sausage devotees at this Texas-size eaterama. For ten days, New Braunfels, Texas, rolls out the best of the wurst, as well as yodelers, dancers and polka players with down-home names like Oma and the Oompahs. Nov. 3 through...
KATE BUSH: THE SENSUAL WORLD (Columbia). Well, it does have a lonely-hearts love song about a computer. Otherwise, the histrionics are so heavy and the passion so sham on this record that it would be wiser just to press DELETE...
...movie industry using a hairbrush and a blow dryer. After coiffing Barbra Streisand and then moving in with her, the hairstyling tycoon produced her 1976 hit movie, A Star Is Born. Eventually the talkative Peters produced two other Streisand vehicles, The Main Event and What's Up, Doc?, as well as the hit comedy Caddyshack...
...Flies, but the Spectors seem ideal parents-to-be. Yet they can't be biological parents. Every month Linda says, "I spend two weeks whacked out on fertility drugs, two weeks depressed that they don't work." In the bathroom, Michael opens a specimen jar, picks up a well-thumbed copy of Penthouse and sighs. There is no joy in their rituals, only emptiness and failure. Time to adopt a baby...