Word: boosterism
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...exception among American mayors, who often seem overwhelmed by urban woes, peripatetic Sam Yorty of Los Angeles is an indomitable booster who proclaims that "this city is the envy of the world." If Los Angeles has some troubles and tensions, the reason, as Mayor Sam never tires of explaining, is simply that his own powers are severely limited in comparison with those of the numerous commissions and boards in the area. Anti-Yorty jokes, aimed at the mayor's do-nothingness, are as common in Los Angeles as smog, traffic jams and starlets. Cracks Jesse Unruh, former Democratic Speaker...
...dinner guest seated beside one of Nixon's wealthy friends tried to converse about the talent that the President had assembled. It was like getting a Dun & Bradstreet report. Each man's worth to the Republic was based on his portfolio. When someone raised doubts about Nixon Booster W. Clement Stone, an astonished White House staff member protested: "He must be great! They say he's made $200 million...
...Neal's computerized skill at the game, Ned Beatty as a fast-talking fence and rabid family man ("My boys are gonna grow up goddam fine or I'm gonna know the reason why!"), and Gregory Sierra as a punchy Mexican boxer and amateur booster-all lavish the kind of care on their roles that goes beyond the call of duty and script...
...share of the family fortunes-and to New York cafe society. When his first marriage to former Showgirl Barbara ("Bobo") Sears went awry in the early '50s, he left New York for the Arkansas hills, built a ranch and gradually became the state's biggest booster and leading Republican organizer. Adopting western boots and a straw hat as his trademark, Rockefeller brushed aside charges that he was a "jet-set cowboy," offered Arkansas voters a mildly conservative platform and in 1966 was elected the state's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction. After his re-election...
...energies, and those of Scenarists Joan Silver and James Bridges, seem to have been poured into creating stereotypes with whom every member of the audience could identify, no matter what their politics. There is a bitter, continuously frustrated campaigner against the war (Kathleen Nolan), a vociferous, tirelessly anti-Communist booster of the military effort (Katherine Justice), and a neutral, who nevertheless gets a little queasy when shown some scenes of maimed North Vietnamese children (Kate Jackson). The movie is painstak∎∎ing in its refusal to take any kind of stand at all, other than a rather strong suggestion...