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...policies thought he would be better than Carter anyway, supposing that Reagan's actions as president would be more moderate than his rhetoric. But he fooled them all, keeping all of the many campaign promises to dismantle federal programs, slash taxes and increase military expenditures. Reagan has had his pound of flesh. Now Wall Street wants blood...
...looked the part. Anyone might have the well-muscled, 6-2, 215-pound body, but Stinn has that big mid-western face, the wide, confident, permanent smile, the two enormous eye-teeth as big and white as business cards introducing themselves. And has there ever been a better football player name? It all makes it that much harder to leave the game he loves...
...carry a 285-pound boulder back home, where it will serve as a stunningly original coffee table...
...Pound Marriage...
This is the way much of The Water-Method Man (1972) and The 158-Pound Marriage (1974) were composed. The latter is a bleak tale about the complications of spouse swapping. Between teaching at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., and stints at the Writers' Workshop in Iowa, Irving typed away in a small shed, the same one that overlooks the pool. There was no pool then, and the future did not seem to promise one. He now works mainly in a study above the kitchen. Weather permitting, one of his three typewriters can be found...