Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incoherence, was as relaxed and confident in Los Angeles as he has ever been on a national stage. His efforts at humor seemed mostly spontaneous rather than the spoon-fed one-liners of backstage handlers. Asked to find something to praise about his Democratic rival, Bush flashed a broad grin and said, "Listen, you're stealing my close. I had something very nice to say in that." This easy-listening tone was established early in the debate, when the Vice President interrupted moderator Shaw, who was trying to pose a hypothetical question about Dan Quayle's becoming President following Bush...
...variation on Walt Whitman. White's descriptions of the 1960 race are bardic, Homeric. Political bosses are "chieftains." The "clashes" between Kennedy and Nixon sound like something that occurred between Achilles and Hector outside the walls of Troy. The premise that gives his narrative its dramatic drive is a broad foundation of certitude about the rightness and pre-eminence of American power and, therefore, the absolute centrality of the presidential race in the drama of the world. It was then a Ptolemaic universe, revolving around the White House. What higher story to tell? Americans did not then lose wars. Presidents...
...film is an adventure too, a tightrope dance between sociology and sentiment. Salaam Bombay! deserves a broad audience, not just to open American eyes to plights of hunger and homelessness abroad, but to open American minds to the vitality of a cinema without rim shots and happy endings...
...speech to farmers and officials at a Central Committee conference, Gorbachev called for a broad reorganization of agriculture under which many collective enterprises would be subdivided into smaller, leased tracts to give Soviet farmers a financial incentive for increasing production. "We have transformed them," said Gorbachev of the farmers, "from masters of their land into day laborers...
...curious that it should have taken so long. There was not even a full- scale biography of Degas until 1984, when Roy McMullen's Degas: His Life, Times & Work was published. Aspects of Degas's work -- mainly his ballet paintings from the 1880s -- have long been popular with a broad audience, too much so for their own good. But he has never been a "popular" artist like the wholly inferior Renoir, whose 1985 retrospective in London, Paris and Boston beguiled the crowds and disappointed everyone else. Degas was much harder to take, with his spiny intelligence (never Renoir's problem...