Word: candidated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid much blathering commentary that night, NBC's John Chancellor was both candid and prescient: "In my judgment, the President got very tired at the end. He seemed quite disorganized in his closing remarks." The public felt that way too about the first debate. The widespread distress at Reagan's lackluster performance shook the press from its initial timid opinion that Mondale had won a narrow victory on "the debating points...
Some insiders whisper another reason for the lack of real rebuttal: neither candidate is much good at it, at least by the standards a coach of formal debates would apply. The rules for judging a TV political debate are of course different. Says one candid presidential aide: "Reagan delivered a couple of good one-liners, stayed close to the podium, looked alert and had a better camera angle. The conclusion is that Reagan won the debate." The adviser's own verdict is somewhat different: "The most interesting thing is how little these debates tell us about which candidate would...
...himself be stampeded by State into pre-emptive concessions in the heat of the campaign, nor is he going to let himself be stampeded by Defense into slamming any doors he may want to walk through later." In his U.N. speech, the President simply advocated negotiations and added a candid explanation of the difference in tone between that address and his earlier fulminations against the "evil empire." Said Reagan: "America has repaired its strength; we have invigorated our alliances and friendships. We are ready for constructive negotiations with the Soviet Union." Translation: two or three years ago, in Reagan...
...tradition, fabric design, graphic display and body structure (illustrated with vintage photos of women who dive for fish outside a village east of Tokyo). "I make style out of life," Miyake says, "not style out of style." The roots of that life are beautifully revealed in a series of candid photos put together almost like a jump-cut documentary on Tokyo street life, showing everyone from a roadworker wearing rubberized rain gear to a peddler, a Buddhist monk and a junk collector...
...both delighted and dismayed by Jane O'Reilly's portrait of a Las Vegas ladies' room [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 27]. The article was candid, catty and refreshingly re-enacted. However, the sanctity of the powder room has now been violated...