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...visits to some 20,000 homes, with a goal of 35,000 by election day. Perhaps this grassroots plan made a virtue of necessity, given the scarcity of wealthy patrons for Gallagher, who is an active member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Still, the candidate's refusal to hide behind prepared statements and overprotective staffers reflected an enthusiasm rare in modern technocratic politics...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: A Place for Idealism | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

...movie is shot in black and white. That's a strange choice for a comedy, because black and white films seem drier and duller than technicolor. It's an even stranger choice for a first time director like Prince. In black and white there's nowhere to hide--you have to get the staging just right, the shadows to fall just so. Since there's less to confuse the eye and the mind, the viewer can really concentrate on the aesthetic qualities of the movie...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: A Sweet Cherry Moon | 7/11/1986 | See Source »

Some experts said that the absence of the Gramm-Rudman act will improve the quality of Congress' budget-making process. Without the protection of Gramm-Rudman's automatic provision, "there's no place to hide from hard budget decisions," said John Shattuck, Harvard vice president for government and community affairs...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Gramm-Rudman Called Unconstitutional | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...play of sexual charades, Edward's announcement comes as little surprise. For the play is all about repression and conforming to sexual expectations, or not. Every character in Cloud 9 is trying to break free of repression and act only as he or she wishes. Mired in having to hide perversities behind closed doors in the Victorian age, the characters have no hope of achieving any freedom...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Get Off My Cloud | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

...farmers involved in the process could produce without fear of bum crops or low prices forcing foreclosure upon their family and moderate fortune. Waste would be eliminated from the beginning to the end--farmers would not purposefully destroy good crops or hide them in warehouses like nuclear arsenals; employees in the brown and gold polyester would not have to waste the movement of hand to bun with slime in hand; and lastly, new condominiums would not be resting upon a mountain of pickles that have made their run through the sanitation system...

Author: By Bruce M. Kluckhohn, | Title: Soured World View | 7/1/1986 | See Source »

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