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...threat was one that Reagan had voiced many times before. But the words, echoing a celebrated Clint Eastwood line, marked a new high in cocky combativeness, even for a President who has never been exactly deficient in that quality. Both the business executives who greeted the dare with applause and laughter and the members of the Senate Budget Committee at whom it was aimed were aware that Reagan was mockingly embracing the very swaggering-cowboy image his detractors have long been trying...
...Sunbelt centrists who feel the greatest need for change; right now, they dare not identify themselves with the national party image. One example: in a number of states, popular Democratic Governors would seem to have the best chance of defeating Republican Senators who will be running for re-election in 1986, but the Governors are reluctant to try. Fred DuVal, an adviser to Arizona's Babbitt, explains that a Governor can present himself to voters as being independent, but "when you run for the Senate you can count on losing eight to ten points (in popularity) just because you become...
...measles wouldn't dare come to Harvard," said Joseph J. Zorc...
...Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas Brothers take flight and dare each other to come down first...
...Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas Brothers take flight and dare each other to come down first...