Word: yes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yes, the plot: the naked body of the President's chief of staff is found in a bathtub at the Hay-Adams Hotel. Which soaped-up Washington wife was with him when he hit the porcelain, and whom will President Kane (Dean's maiden name) appoint to replace him? Who cares? Fictional names and events are mixed up with the names of real people and actual events, and what comes out is slicker than lip gloss...
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES reinforce our standing among the laughably inferior forms of life. Compared to the sniveling beasts of the jungle, Man's intelligence--not to mention his table manners--is unparalleled. Man is the absolute undisputed master of all he surveys. Yes, progress has served him well. That is, until...
...Yes, I may find myself bending his ear on thatvery subject," Reagan said...
...flow, upscale Volvos and BMWs. Turning off to the New Jersey Turnpike, the road becomes a delta, flattening, spreading out, careening and jostling forward at 55 m.p.h. The trucks are shunted off to a side lane and traveling along, nose to tail, bumper to bumper, they look like . . . yes! . . . a train! Remember trains? Surely trains were more sensible than this, a 20th century folly, this stampede of steel roaring toward the Lincoln Tunnel...
After four intensive weeks, the talks ended last Friday with a fizzle. Yes, the conferees managed to patch together a shaky agreement, one that purports to reduce the deficit by $30 billion next year and $46 billion more the year after. But as the President and congressional leaders announced the plan, a strange air of anticlimax pervaded the White House briefing room. "This agreement is probably not the best deal that could be made," said Reagan, "but it is a good, solid beginning." House Speaker Jim Wright struck a conciliatory note: "Everybody gives some, nobody gets everything he wants." Later...