Word: blitzing
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...Under a blitz like that of the Nazis. She's chased around by press paparazzis, Well, maybe not chaste the girl, as we've seen. Has luck next to Chuck a baby machine. Now, back from the sixties (help me Rhonda') It's that scrawny, loud-mouth witch. Jane Fonda. Selling fitness books, dressed in sweats and sneaks. What's this? A quote? Oh Jesus, still she speaks...
...candidates appear on TV to make grandious victory or concession speeches, their strategists are tirelessly preparing for the next contest. Forever drafting the newest issues statement or planning the next media blitz, these key staffers know no respite...
...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...