Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least of the Heritage Foundation's appeal to President Reagan is that its analysts have mastered the scholarly equivalent of the famous memo style he requires of his own staff members: short, uncomplicated and easy to read. Except for occasional Government-wide surveys like last week's Mandate for Leadership II, Heritage writers are guided by the rule of thumb practiced by Edwin J. Feulner Jr., the foundation's president and cofounder. Says he: "If the Heritage study is thin enough to make it into a Congressman's briefcase, half the battle...
...made no secret of her desire to leave her Cabinet-level post after the current General Assembly session ends in December. The only question during the past year was whether she would return to private life or move into one of the handful of policymaking jobs in Washington that appeal to her formidable intellect. In the days after the presidential election, her choice was rapidly narrowed as Ronald Reagan issued, and was taken up on, reappointment offers to the incumbent Secretaries of State and Defense, the National Security Adviser and the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. That was just...
...Marvin Mitchelson, no shrinking violet himself: "Her style is a little bit rough on the edges." But others see nothing wrong with her flair for the dramatic. Noting that Allred is careful to keep her theatrics out sides of court, Justice Joan Dempsey Klein of the California Court of Appeal says, "She does her homework; her success rate is good. She is both style and substance. So long as there is not an equal rights amen ment, there will be lots of work for Gloria Allred...
...they want," Tartikoff says. "I'm more interested in giving them what they will want. I like to challenge the audience. That's not to say that you don't do your share of pandering." Some would place in the latter category NBC's mass-appeal show The A-Team, which was based on an idea Tartikoff hatched after meeting Mr. T at a boxing match. He came into the office one day and wrote a note: "A-Team. Magnificent Seven, Dirty Dozen, Mission Impossible, Road Warrior all rolled into one, and Mr. T drives...
...exotic foreign city, the glamourous actress, the handsome young hero-- and Foreign Affairs seems like anything but an easy gamble Lurie spares as none of the foibles and failing of the Professors of Love, but makes us love them anyway. She succeeds not by resting on the certain appeal of the glamorous life, but, like her academic friends, in spite of glamour...