Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JERRY BROWN is no longer "the sort of candidate who could be 20 points down in the polls of Friday, blitz the state over the weekend, and hand you your ass on Tuesday." That's how one Carter aide described him in 1976, when Brown upset Jimmy Carter in five primaries. Those victories, astounding for a man who had been governor of California barely six months, are now distant, almost absurd memories...
...infused by a wit and sweetness usually absent from that genre. Nash lives in what must be the most sodden provincial seclusion the British Isles can offer-the Welsh village of Blaenau Ffestiniog, near which, 40 years ago, the National Gallery secreted its paintings to save them from the blitz. Nash assembles his sculptures from rough tree branches, trunks and slate. His projects include a sculpture of growing trees, topiarized into the form of a dome, a sylvan abstraction that will take 30 years to reach its intended dimensions. What seems so fetching in his work is not just...
Connally, who had hoped to come in third, was embarrassed by his fourth-place finish. He skimped on organization to concentrate on a $125,000 media blitz. But his Texas-style swagger was not really suited to down-home Iowa. Some low blows in his advertising did not help him in a state where the politics are especially clean. (Example: he ran a TV spot that implied that Governor Ray had endorsed him. When Ray objected, Connally had to withdraw...
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Baker and Connally also have been following a catch-up strategy. Lacking the organization of the top two, they are conducting a lavish media blitz aimed at bringing out as big a caucus vote as possible. "The more people who turn out, the more it helps me," says Baker. But that is a strategy better calculated to work in a primary than in a caucus. Connally and Baker are both also trying to shake as many hands as possible, but they are several thousand behind Bush. As Dick Redman, Baker's Iowa campaign chairman, puts it: "In Iowa, folks...