Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good thing that the chairmen of the Democratic Party have joined the rest of the country in recognizing Reagan's appeal. It goes without saying that it would be a bad move for the party to launch personal attacks against a man who has come to define the presidency for significant segments of the American electorate...
According to some room connoisseurs, even beer posters and Marilyn Monroe--another male favorite--do not appeal to some students' aesthetic tastes. "I know a lot of guys who don't even bother to put up posters," says Sarah C. Penniston...
Gene Hackman dominated the film with sturdy professionalism. Dillon's characteristic sincerity and appeal come through in the close-ups at the beginning and end of the picture and in a funny, well-developed romantic interlude with a sexy young spy. On a more curious note, all the women in the film look alike, and one particular cut--from a shot of the girl spy to a matching angle of an older woman--dad's former lover--comes off as a jump-cut where the character suddenly ages 25 years...
Most annoying is Cosell's chapter on Monday Night Football. He constantly describes the telecast as something that transcends sport, a program which had to appeal to more than just the Bud-toting football fan, but also to wives, children, students, and occasional sports fans. Cosell, according to Cosell, was of course the key ingredient to that recipe, and Frank Gifford, O.J. Simpson, and Don Meredith were just a bunch of dumb jocks thrown in the booth as personal favors from Roone Arledge. Cosell even has the gall to say that the only reason Gifford still...
...consumption, sexism and elitism be reformed? Even admitting women (an unlikely prospect at best) wouldn't improve the moral base of a system founded on privilege. To truly reform the clubs one would have to eliminate the displays of wealth and symbols of superiority which constitute the clubs' main appeal...