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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart's celebrity status and name recognition put him among the front runners, at least for the moment. To the rest of the Democratic field, however, he was like Dr. Seuss's Grinch Who Stole Christmas, an instant spoiler further disrupting his party's stumbling attempts to rally behind an electable candidate. Like Jesse Jackson, the other leader of the Democratic pack, Hart arouses such high negative feelings in the polls that he is hardly a plausible nominee. Yet together they could draw enough votes to make it more difficult for any of the other five contenders to garner...
...stand in 1988. "If there's one loser, it's Dukakis," theorizes Political Consultant Ralph Mongeluzo. "When Hart dropped out, a big part of his support went to Dukakis. Now he'll have a shot at getting it back." Early polls show Hart vaulting into second place behind Dukakis in New Hampshire. Yet in the looking-glass world of political expectations, Hart's presence may actually help Dukakis if the Governor can still win in New Hampshire. Such a victory would have been discounted if Dukakis had faced only the pre-existing weak field. But if he knocks off Hart...
...news dispatch about a cafe bombing he had witnessed. ("Adrian is now in law school," says Williams, who met Cronauer two weeks ago. "He looks like Judge Bork.") But around these few facts, the film spins a fantasy of irreverence and lost innocence. Mostly, it puts its star behind an Armed Forces Radio mike to devise some stratospheric ad libs. The monologues, the English lessons for Vietnamese students and Adrian's chat with a truckload of G.I.s were all improvised under the astute eye of Director Barry Levinson. "Barry lets you be free," Williams notes, "but not so free...
...characters burdened with the necessity of being typical have a hard time simply being themselves. Peter and Paul are so busy representing alternate responses to stimuli that they seem ganglions rather than real folks. Deighton can rarely resist the temptation to point out the big issues behind his narrative. He interrupts a scene of trench warfare with a sweeping comment on some of the combatants: "They were Germans, and their readiness to obey instructions was a measure of their civilization, and their tragedy...
...work out an agreement that would commit the sides to observe the ABM treaty, as signed in 1972, while conducting their research, development and testing as required, which are permitted by the ABM treaty, and not to withdraw from the ABM treaty for a specified period of time." Behind the convoluted language lies a compromise that allows the two leaders to take opposed positions on SDI. Does this mean the Soviets have accepted the inevitability of eventual SDI deployment? Hardly. They have given up on trying to get this President to accept any formula that explicitly limits SDI testing...