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...Soft-Boiler...
Bush carefully studied the leadership style of Ronald Reagan, which was to keep a public amiability while having a wrecking crew ready in the boiler room. Bush has had his political roughnecks, like Roger Ailes and the late Lee Atwater, who played the Willie Horton race card in the 1988 campaign. "I can't imagine this campaign will be that tough," muses a White House tactician. "But we will be ready...
...from Pangloss to pessimist with an artful analysis of the nation's class cleavages. He correctly identifies the growing economic and social gap between the well- educated elite ("the fortunate fifth") and the rest of the nation as the major threat to future prosperity. His remedies are mostly liberal boiler plate: progressive taxation, job training and reinvestment in the nation's infrastructure. Familiar Reich stuff -- but probably not the right stuff for Democrats hungering for an economic road map toward 1992 and beyond...
...Dark Shadows is drained of blood well before Barnabas bares his fangs. The pace is funereal; the plot twists, pure gothic boiler plate. There's the fresh-faced governess who arrives at the mansion to tutor an eerily disturbed child; the slow-witted groundskeeper who is enslaved by the vampire (paging Dwight Frye); the 200-year-old paintings that -- gasp! -- bear a striking resemblance to present-day folk; the baffled reaction of doctors and police to mysterious deaths in the town ("Looks like some kind of wild animal tried to tear her throat out"). Cross has a suave-but-menacing...
...Fund for Income and the High Yield Fund) grow to more than $2.4 billion in assets. At its peak, First Investors commanded an army of 5,000 sales agents spread throughout 285 offices in 49 states -- most of them inexperienced, ill trained and often crammed like cattle into boiler-room offices. The agents memorized scripted pitches that they parroted to customers, usually over the phone. The firm also uses a pyramid-style structure, similar to Amway's, in which agents recruit others in return for a cut of new revenues...