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...over Bork could be the culminating ideological showdown of the Reagan era. After nearly seven years in office, the President has altered the tenor of the nation's political debate, riding and guiding the pendulum swing from the liberal Zeitgeist of the 1960s to the conservative climate of the '80s. Yet for all the talk of a Reagan Revolution, for all the President's personal popularity and success in changing tax and spending policies, the social agenda of the New Right has remained largely unfulfilled. When he nominated Bork, Reagan said that the judge "shares my view" of the proper...
Neither story is that unusual. Moonlighting was once thought to be a temporary phenomenon made necessary by the ravages of inflation. But as inflation has abated in the '80s, the practice has only increased. At last count, in May 1985, the Labor Department found that 5.7 million workers, or 5.4% of all those employed, held more than one job. That was up from 4.9% in 1980, the double-digit-inflati on year, and the highest proportion in more than two decades. The number of moonlighting women in the labor force jumped 40% between 1980 and 1985, to 2.2 million, three...
...Sunday, Aug. 16, the radio tower at Metropolitan Airport cleared Flight 255 for departure. Captain John R. Maus, 57, a veteran pilot with 20,000 hours of flight experience, 2,000 of them in MD-80s, taxied the plane onto runway 3-Center North. The plane, loaded with a full 39,128 lbs. of jet fuel and 6,000 lbs. of baggage, hurtled farther than normal down the runway and rose less than 50 feet before plunging. In the cockpit, a computer- generated voice repeated the words "stall . . . stall," indicating that the airflow over the wings was no longer sufficient...
...Saturday Night Live. The intimacy between comic and audience, moreover, may be especially appealing in an age of high-tech movies and supersize rock concerts. Or it may simply be that the instant gratification of one-liners is perfectly suited to the short attention span of the TV-educated '80s audience. "If you go to a comedy play, a certain amount of time is lost setting up the plot or characters," notes Bert Haas, general manager of Zanies, a Chicago-based comedy-club chain. "In the stand- up comedy room, you get three or four laughs in one minute...
...wore a novelty- store arrow through his head and became the decade' s hottest comic. In the '80s he turned to film, and with this summer' s sleeper hit Roxanne has shown he is America' s most charming and resourceful comic actor. Martin honed his talents in comedy clubs -- a growth industry that has launched a new generation of stand- up wits. See SHOW BUSINESS...