Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance that the early votes will be splintered, there is a distinct advantage to having a regional base, especially if no one else does. Gore's base helped him enter the new year with nearly $2.4 million in ready campaign cash, second only to Michael Dukakis among Democrats. Consultant Bob Squier calls Gore's ability to build a regional support system the "first institutional breakthrough among the Democrats...
...first four campaign days of 1988 were all George Bush needed to turn the Republican race into a blood sport. Beginning in Washington with an artful response to the taunts of his principal rival, Bob Dole, and climaxing with a brawling, take-me-on-if-you-dare performance at a Des Moines debate, Bush appeared to have whipped his wimp image. But the Vice President may need all the moxie he can muster, since he suddenly found himself bushwhacked over an issue he hoped had been forgotten: his role in the Iran-contra scandal. The fusillade of what...
Daffy was not real, of course -- just a sheaf of drawings flipped past the eye at 24 frames per second. But the comic artistry of such directors as Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett made Daffy and the other denizens of the Warner Bros. cartoon barnyard seem as vivid as Sly Stallone and twice as funny. They surely seemed so to Greg Ford, a scholar-evangelist who has mounted cartoon retrospectives at museums and revival houses. Last year Warners hired him and Animator Terry Lennon to write and direct the little black duck's comeback vehicle...
...mind, would he let me know? He said he would, and I have not heard a thing." Baker has warned his staff not to slight any Republican or give any an advantage. He has tried to keep the White House scrupulously neutral in the feuds between George Bush and Bob Dole, much to Bush's consternation. "I'll end up with all of them mad at me," he grins...
...through the door in Houston, and $5 is the limit in Atlanta and Cleveland. But Gordon Crawford, a California entertainment analyst, predicts that by the end of 1988 fans in Los Angeles will be paying $7. Some Angelenos seem sanguine at the prospect. "Movies are better than ever," says Bob Singer, 32, standing in line for Moonstruck, "and I don't mind paying more for a better product. So why don't they just reduce the price of popcorn a dollar and call it even...