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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush struck with a five-minute ad that servedas a reprise of his campaign-long attacks on hisDemocratic rival. It featured Massachusettsresidents complaining about their governor'shandling of pollution problems in Boston Harbor,about the state's prison furlough program andabout the state's economy, including budgetshortfalls...
...Nineteen months ago you started all this in Iowa. You were selling yourself as a competent manager. The question has to be raised about whether your campaign has been managed competently, from chaos in the ad department to disorder on the staff...
...approve every campaign ad? How about the one of handlers packaging Bush...
...look at every ad. I reviewed them, and our judgment was to go forward...
...sweet it is to have just one such moment in life. How bitter to have it early, and then be forced to rerun it ad nauseam, until the triumph turns into sitcom. Bitter for Gavin, for the luminous Babs, for their bookworm nephew Donnie (Timothy Hutton) and their lumbering pal Lawrence (John Goodman). The story meanders through 25 years of the changing South -- civil rights, women's rights, the capricious kingdom of celebrity -- and ends in 1981, but its moral should catch in many a yuppie throat. The price of pursuing eternal youth is catching it, like a cold...