Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fritz blitz began while the wounds of the 1980 Carter-Mondale loss to Reagan were still smarting. Three months after the election, Mondale formed a political action committee called the Committee for the Future of America, which raised $2.1 million for Democratic congressional candidates running in 1982. Mondale shrewdly achieved two aims: he earned the gratitude of all those candidates and gained invaluable lists of likely donors to Democratic campaigns, most pointedly his own. (Today Mondale refuses PAC money, charging that PACs are used by special interests to buy political influence...
...Mondale planners are eager for a quick knockout. Says Fund Raiser Timothy Finchem: "Our concern is how soon we can put this thing away. It means a helluva lot in defeating Reagan." But not every Democrat is likely to simply bow out and join the Fritz blitz...
...rest of Footloose is directed by Herbert Ross, and while it displays spasms of finger-popping vigor, the movie never lives up to-or survives-those first few minutes. Partly this arises from the picture's design. Though it is being marketed with the now familiar multi-media blitz, Footloose means to imitate Flashdance only in its box-office success. Ross and Screenwriter-Songwriter Dean Pitchford have set their sights much higher. The basic plot-Rebel Without a Cause crossed with the old Mickey Rooney-Judy Garland musicals in which somebody always shouted, "Hey, kids...
...media blitz which has centered around this year's hockey team has resulted in the American public having a very narrow focus of attention. Simultaneously, this exposure has encouraged the widespread misperception that our guys could do it again, despite the fact that they never proved to be a dominating force to begin with. The only similarity between this year's and the 1980 squad is the letters on the jerseys...
That promising display of solidarity, however, was soon overshadowed by a blitz of controversial decisions and internal struggles. At a two-day session in Hunt Valley, Md., the new commission's conservative majority dominated the liberal members. By a 5-to-3 vote, the group decided to cancel an investigation of how cutbacks in student financial aid affected colleges where most students were black or Hispanic, and by a 6-to-2 vote, it came out against the Detroit police department's use of numerical quotas for the promotion of blacks to lieutenant...