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...American--including the Republican Party. Americans are used to spending and consuming, not tightening their belts, and Congress has balked at any attempts to place a tax on gasoline in order to reduce consumption. Last spring Yergin proposed a gasoline tax that, no matter how politically impractical, is simpler and more effective than John Anderson's. Yergin proposed a tax that would reach $1 a gallon in five years, with direct rebates to purchasers. According to Yergin's statistics, that would reduce national gasoline consumption by 25 per cent...
...caution: None of the adolescent boys who star in My Bodyguard fall in love. They don't even become infatuated. Girls are brace-faced idiots who fill in the empty classrooms of the John Fleer School in Chicago, Ill. That makes this heart-warming tale of pubescent-bonding much simpler, of course, since females don't get in the way. Their absence casts a strange aura over this film, where the only libidinous urges come from Ruth Gordon, playing a grandmother with lust in her heart. Not that sex should be everything. But in tenth grade, sex is everything...
...party platform reflect a belief in an embattled unit, the traditional family, with a working father and a mother at home teaching values to the children. "Traditional family values," said Independent Hawaiian Delegate John Leopold, "is a term they use to describe a wish that we go back to simpler times, when the roles of men and women were different...
...over a "normality" that the nation has not experienced for a generation. Even some voters who are chilled by Reagan's politics and his followers have begun to take wistful consolation in the thought that the future under Reagan might be a kind of doubling back to the simpler past of the '50s: not the most ennobling American era, they admit, but not such a bad one either. Worse things have happened, such as 20 years of assassinations, riots, Viet Nam and Watergate, OPEC's extortions and the dollar's humiliation...
Rockers' predecessor, The Harder They Come, has a tiny mythic quality. It beats one song into a sandy grave but maintains a quick, urchin-like pace that never gets lost in the narrow, winding streets of Kingston. Rockers, simpler and less violent, doesn't show as much of the city, sticking primarily to the Rasta neighborhoods where life is slower...