Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reese, who doesn't mind being called a liberal, supported Joe Biden, Paul Simon and Albert Gore consecutively in the primaries before he got behind the Democratic nominee. But he says Dukakis is a credible candidate in the liberal tradition, one he is proud to support...
...feel more of a need for kings" than competent politicians, says Kennedy School Academic Dean Albert Carnesale, who has advised both the Reagan administration and the Dukakis campaign on foreign policy issues. "Kings are not about issues...if your only interest is getting elected, you've got to run as king...
...case of misplaced Oedipal urges? "Now the ghosts dissolve," he writes at the book's end. Ghosts? But then Goodwin seems to be preoccupied by the supernatural. He begins his book by quoting Paul Simon, "Hello darkness my old friend/I've come to talk with you again." To paraphrase Albert Brooks, I know people who talk to the darkness and they take plenty of medication...
Hotel message boards reflect the close fraternity of men, and their wives, many of them members of the Adelines: "The Redwoods from N.Z. Are in Room 1109," "Alice and Albert, Have a Nice Day, John." At the souvenir tables, singers snatch up LPs by grand masters and $27 home-study tapes -- Theory of Harmony, How to Warm Up Your Voice. The camaraderie extends to the contest stage. The battle is to win, not to beat the other guy. " 'We' is the competition," notes a Chief of Staffer. No candy-shirted drunks around a barber pole at this convention...
...film makes extensive use of John's "home movies," most of which were made by professionals. These offer a pleasant glimpse into John's househusband years that seems to refute the allegations in Albert Goldman's scurrilous new biography that John was less than a devoted father to Sean, or that he was anorexic, stoned or unhappy during those years. But the film fails to convince because it glosses over this period, just as it glosses over much of John's life in its headlong rush to condense all that John was into 90 minutes...