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...recent years two forces have thrown the system out of kilter. One is the outdated Government index known as "parity." Its purpose is to make sure that milk retains, relatively speaking, the same value in 1981 that it had before World War I. Improvements in dairy technology have now boosted productivity dramatically, but the rickety parity index has never been updated, causing the price of milk to stay artificially high...
...strike goes on for very long, and the unimaginable becomes the inescapable, what damage will it do to the American way of life? In the first place, it will significantly change the 1981 baseball season; it already has. The rhythm of the season has been thrown off; momentums have been lost. On the other hand, the Atlanta Braves have played so abysmally that when the strike began, the Atlanta Constitution editorialized: "Great news! The Braves didn't lose last night." In Atlanta, the strike may be accepted as evidence of God's mercy...
...What chutzpah," Begin fumed to his aides. On the hustings, Begin went further. "By what morality were you acting, Mr. American Secretary of Defense?" he asked rhetorically before a campaign crowd. "Haven't you heard of 1.5 million little Jewish children who were thrown into the gas chambers?" Weinberger, who in fact had not urged stopping aid to Israel, issued a calm statement saying that he was "sorry that Mr. Begin is proceeding on an erroneous assumption...
...Iraqis were preparing atomic bombs to drop on the children of Israel. Haven't you heard of 1½ million little Jewish children who were thrown into the gas chambers...
...about as much breath power as an ordinary mortal uses to douse a candle. The final confrontation with Superman is a barroom brawl on a delightfully gigantic scale. Instead of heaving furniture at one another, they toss a bus back and forth. And when one of the combatants gets thrown, the trajectory is measured in city blocks. In short, there is wit, even a sort of weird plausibility, in the action sequences that was not present in the first film. Since the major change in the credits is the substitution of Richard Lester for Richard Donner as director, it seems...