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...Colleagues in the conservative movement have cuddly nicknames for Floyd Brown -- Boy Scout, Buckwheat, Baby Huey -- because of his deceptively gentle mien and innocent face. So it was hardly unusual last week, as he unveiled a feral TV ad attacking Bill Clinton's character, that Brown said in a mournful tone, "It's a sad state of affairs, but these are things the people have to know about." If neither the press nor the Bush-Quayle campaign will hound Clinton anew about his past, Brown said, someone must...
Brown's work descends to a new low in attack commercials, which means that they could damage his candidate, George Bush, even more than Clinton. Many voters, already sour about ad hominem assaults, will think that Bush's agents produced the ad. The G.O.P. campaign will doubtless engage in its own tough tactics, but it wants to calibrate its messages. Bush denounced Brown's work as "the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process." The Bush- Quayle campaign tried to hit Brown's operation in the pocketbook last month by obtaining from the Federal Election Commission the names...
...good as he gets. In fact, it was Mr. Straight himself who first struck at the Massachusetts prison-furlough program, which the Republicans then spun into the infamous Willie Horton commercials. And now that the people who brought us Willie Horton are back with a new anti-Clinton ad campaign, this cycle's candidate is signaling clearly that he won't pull a Dukakis and roll over without a fight. Clinton told TIME he is "not surprised" by a 60-sec. spot that invites the curious to call a number on the screen to "get to know Bill Clinton...
...from fears of madness, isolation, death. But not until his 1990 play, Prelude to a Kiss, did Lucas find the perfect blend of style and subject. The combatants here are the human body and the human urge to love. The first is impermanent, the second imperishable. For once an ad line gets the sense of a movie: "If you can't believe your eyes, trust your heart...
Even Ike liked a negative campaign ad...