Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just want their money," said the candid guide, who had announced to the tour group earlier that she did not belong to the Chinese Communist party and would be giving us "no propaganda...
...When these political-action committees give money," Bob Dole once said, "they expect something in return other than good government." The Kansas Senator may have been more candid than he intended. In a new book, The Best Congress Money Can Buy (Pantheon; $18.95), the veteran muckraker and anti-PAC crusader Philip M. Stern contends that special-interest donations have often been used to purchase crucial votes from U.S. legislators. Citing reports in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, Stern accuses several lawmakers of flip-flopping on issues after they received big campaign contributions. Others, he says, have been handsomely rewarded...
...insider glimpses are candid and juicy. CBS Evening News Anchorman Dan Rather is portrayed as an erratic, insecure man, duplicitous in personal dealings. Favored correspondents reportedly are accorded a place on Rather's A list and get frequent exposure on the CBS Evening News. Those who cross him -- Morton Dean, Ed Rabel -- are forced into relative obscurity. But the chief Machiavelli in this troubled kingdom is Van Gordon Sauter, the raffishly flamboyant former president of CBS News, who is charged with virtually dismantling the great journalistic tradition fostered by Edward R. Murrow. Dallas was never so lively...
...been slow in picking up on these issues," Mendelsohn says. "Congress has been lazy. The scientific community has been less than fully thoughtful and less than fully candid...
...collection of Ginsberg's photographs, primarily consisting of candid studies of friends from his Beatnik days--novelists Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs--will be on exhibition in the print room of the Fogg Art Museum until the end of the week...