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...your heart. In Katerina's case, the void is filled when she meets Gosha (Alexei Batalov), a magical figure on the order of the Alan Bates character in An Unmarried Woman. The difference is that he has none of the latter's squishy glamour. Gosha is a workingman, an upholder of traditional male values, however humorously he states them, and a man who insists that a woman accept him on his own terms. Katerina does, for she is strong and wise, and braver than he in overcoming the class problem their match presents, even in an officially classless...
...Famous for good clean fun.) A dark, Dantean cavern that waives the $3 to $4 admittance charge for local cabbies (they help spread the word) and books some of the most popular country-rock acts in the area, McNasty's according to Owner Rich Thomas, 38 is "a workingman's nightclub." Or as Singer-Model Elizabeth Harrison, 21 puts it: "Disco turns me off because the people are really plastic. When you're here, you feel like everybody knows you. It's really dynamite. There's no competition. You want to dance...
...believed that Reagan was more likely to start an unnecessary war than Carter, and that Carter was much more sensitive to the poor and the elderly. Still, the right prevailed. The New Deal was out of steam; in the long run it ensured its own obsolescence by giving the workingman the wherewithal to turn Republican. Even so, his paycheck was inadequate. Everything seemed inadequate. The country had to move on, but it was not moving anywhere. Enter Reagan (with jubilation and a mandate...
...must take Democratic stands and nominate Democratic candidates. For future reference, this means that the party's presidential nominee should not support the use of unemployment to combat inflation, should not support a foreign policy of military intervention, and should work as energetically to defend the consumer and the workingman from their corporate predators as to protect the vitality of American industry...
This year my vote goes to Reagan. He seems determined to do something about the economy and give the workingman a chance for a decent life...