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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...first major national figure to seek aggressively a sound program of energy independence, including a substantial windfall profits tax. Furthermore, he has deregulated the airlines, increased federal spending on education by 60 per cent, extended food stamp eligibility to an additional two million Americans, bolstered Head Start and programs for the handicapped, and appointed more women and minorities to significant positions than any other president in history. His has been a presidency of quiet achievement...
...Karen can be any kind of player she wants to be," declares Kleinfelder, adding that "She has to work on her skill level more." Smith got a late start in basketball, coming into the sport as a junior in high school instead of the usual debut in junior high...
Heiden got a good start, but she obviously was beginning to fade in the final third of the race. Her stroking, normally so brisk and efficient, seemed choppy and strained. It was like watching a finely tuned machine run out of lubricant and start to seize up. When it was over, she said she had expected to finish about sixth. Then she added in her chirpy little kid's voice: "You can get pretty nervous thinking about what people expect. But then you say, 'Hey, it's only two and a half minutes out of my life...
...huge floats representing the song's major characters, among them a 30-ft. mom who inflates to appropriately daunting proportions with the throw of a toggle switch. There is also, of course, a wall, soaring 30 ft. above the stage, spanning 210 ft. at the top. At the start of the show, roadies-rechristened "wallies" for the occasion-start stacking 340 cardboard bricks until, at intermission, the wall stands completed. During the second half, a few strategic ruptures appear through which Waters and his fellow Pinkies-Keyboard Player Rick Wright, Drummer Nick Mason and Guitarist Dave Gilmour...
Wise Blood is about Hazel Motes, a young Army veteran who comes home to rural Georgia determined to overthrow his past. Hazel's grandfather was an evangelical preacher; Hazel decides to revolt against his legacy by starting his own "Church Without Christ." As forcefully played by Brad Dourif (the stuttering inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), the young hero is an angry, obsessed loner with penetrating eyes and a fierce bark. When he tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher...