Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats desperately need to find a candidate who can appeal to a coalition broad enough to win. After losing five of the last six presidential elections--four by landslides--the Democrats are grasping for another approach...
Weicker, like his much-maligned conservative counterparts in the Democratic party, showed that the country's two major political parties are broad-based enough to encompass a wide range of views. Contrary to some opinions, America's political parties are not mere interest groups serving the interests of a particular region or social class. With Weicker gone, one has to wonder if this is still the case in the Republican Party, which seems more than ever concerned with preserving homogeneity and presenting a united front to the voters than with engaging in the great internal ideological debates that characterize...
...least, there seems to be broad-based consensus that the old Graustein system had major flaws. And that in itself is a major achievement for an 800-plus member faculty that is almost always resistant to change...
Houses also displayed a broad range ofpolitical opinion, though samples proved too smallto be sure that the results are accurate...
Movies have trod this turf once or twice before; the mid-'50s were rife with such sprawling family sagas (Giant, Written on the Wind). And it might seem as if such broad emotions, such guileless ironies, have no place in our blandly cynical age. But Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman) strides easily among movie cliches. His gift is to play them as if they're all new and all true. And this time he has a cast to lend them flesh and nuance. Quaid creates a genuine pathetic hero, first exuding charm, then marketing it. And Hutton...