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...serious, reciting a familiar list of accomplishments: lower inflation, more jobs, cuts in Government spending, strengthened military forces. "But our work isn't finished," he said. "Tonight is the end of nothing; it's the beginning of everything." He closed with his standard rally-ending line: "You ain't seen nothin...
...campaign had come to seem a sort of fixture in the American mind, like a long-running TV series by Norman Lear. It became a buzz in the background, sharp clusters of words emerging now and then ("Where's the beef?" . . . "You ain't seen nuthin' yet!"), the candidates orating in sound bites as they looped through the media markets. The contest was a procession of internal defeats and victories (Mondale won the first debate, Reagan tied the second, and so on), and yet by definition it was all inconclusive, conjectural, a pageant of popular mood capable...
...ain't a pretty sight...
...About the only tense listener was Dale Schuman, owner of the Magic Man costume and fun shop, whose job it was to release the balloons at precisely the right moment. Reagan sounded his final call to glory: "America's best days are yet to come," he declared. "You ain't seen nothin' yet." The band swung into a country tune, God Bless the U.S.A. "Hit the balloons," said Schuman. As 10,000 of them-red, white and blue-rose into the darkening sky, the awed crowd waved tiny American flags and swayed to the music. Tears formed...
Sunday football, for example, takes a back seat to the commercials shown between posessions. Local radio stations, when not airing campaign ads, spin Helms-Hunt musical parodies. Ray Parker Jr.'s hit "Ghostbusters" has been dismembered so that the chorus repeatedly chimes "Who ya gonna call? Mudslingers! They ain't afraid of no mud. They're just out for some blood...