Word: appealingness
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As maliciousness grows increasingly appealing, image has grown increasingly important. Public figures don't necessarily have to be attractive--observe Ross Perot--but they do need charisma. And their every move is subject to hyper-examination. Back in the 1960 Presidential debates, Richard M. Nixon drew scorn for his sweat...
Paul Brock, the hero of Avery Corman's THE BIG HYPE (Simon & Schuster; $19), is a low-profile writer and family man transformed by a Manhattan show- business promoter into a national phenomenon. The money is swell, but Brock wants to cling to his artistic integrity as if it were...
UNIVERSAL SOLDIER asks us to believe that the government learned to chemically reanimate dead Vietnam vets and turn them into immortal, radically improved fighting machines. It further posits a squad of these supertroopers running around the U.S. as a rogue police force. It's a whopper, all right. But Jean...
In appealing to young voters, Democrats have ample room for improvement and face a fair number of obstacles. The history is discouraging--only 29 percent of eligible 18 to 25-year-olds actually cast votes in the 1988 presidential contest, according to the Committee for the Study of the American...
Students loans are important to many college-aged Americans, said Jennifer M. Bassuk, a senior at the University of Michigan and a political writer for the Michigan Daily. Clinton's proposal for a "domestic G.I. Bill," which would provide student loans regardless of financial need, is appealing now because, Bassuk...