Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to be that you would support a candidate because you agreed with something or other that he thought. But that seems a bit extreme for this gambling brand of '80s politics. My friends the politicos chose candidates because they could relate to them as they could to, say, football teams. They were winners or they were underdogs or they were perrenial favorites being challenged by upstart newcomers. Politics wasn't discussed quite as much as "coolness" or "upsets...
...have responded to NCPAC and other right-wing organizations by forming PACs of their own. Among the new groups is Progressive PAC (ProPAC), which will spend $150,000 in this election, most of it having gone into now abandoned negative campaigns against conservatives. Another is Democrats for the '80s (nicknamed PamPAC for Founder Pamela Harriman), which is spending $500,000. One of the richest ideological PACs is that of the National Organization for Women, which hopes to donate more than $2 million this year to candidates who support its feminist positions and who oppose Reaganomics. Says newly elected...
Earlier he addressed 150 people at the Institute of Polices on "American Intelligence System: Are They Adequate for the 80s...
...mystical suicide. That the child's mother has abandoned the custom of performing the binding herself because she lears her daughter's wrath puts the ironic icing on an already irony-laden cake. The story is funny, though sad, and its off-beat combination of ancient tradition and '80s morality sets the trendy tone that dominates the rest of the book...
When Updike leaves his writing quarters, it is often to play golf, which he does as often as he can, scoring in the 80s on his best days. ("You know instantly how badly you're doing. It's not like writing or being a husband.") He and Martha go to movies about once a week, although he complains that films now "seem more and more to be pitched toward audiences of which I am not a member...