Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE" a few nights ago satirized a gallery of pre-election hopefuls around the country. When it came to the governor's race in California, a photograph of candidate Tom Bradley was accompanied by the quip, "Bradley if elected, will be the nation's tallest governor." The line was a playful poke at the carefully subdued atmosphere in which California will probably make Los Angeles Mayor Bradley America's first Black governor...
With one notable exception, no one has made race an issue in the campaign. Bradley and his opponent, conservative state attorney general George Deukmejian, agreed not to bring it up and the press simply remarked at how smoothly things were progressing. But the bubble burst a few weeks ago when Deukmejian's campaign manager said that polls consistently showing Bradley ahead did not account for a five percent "hidden anti-Black vote that might prove decisive in the election. "Anti-Black" voters, said the aide, would not reveal their prejudices to pollsters, but nevertheless would vote for Deukmejian...
...QUIET" CALIFORNIANS. Democrat Tom Bradley, 64, three-term mayor of Los Angeles and former Los Angeles police officer, uses an all-purpose campaign slogan that touts his two decades of municipal experience: "He doesn't make a lot of noise. He just gets a lot done." His conservative Republican rival, George Deukmejian, 54, could make the same claim, with 16 quiet years served in the state legislature prior to his present post as state attorney general. However, the noise level of the race has risen dramatically as the candidates have spent more and more time and money responding...
...session was the first in a series of full semester discussions-led by Bradley and another house affiliate-on writing techniques. Next month, students will be able to attend sessions on poetry and fiction writing...
Another common subject raised in the two-hour session was the unpleasantness often involved with a career in writing. Brewster observed that "successful marriages are rare." Bradley said that a recent survey found that the average starting salary for a Journalist or a writer is $4,000 a year...