Word: candidates
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...Obama's offensive risks tainting his image as an above-the-fray candidate, he at least starts with a reservoir of high favorability numbers: in a recent Washington Post/ABC poll of likely Iowa voters, 31% found Obama to be the most honest and trustworthy Democratic candidate - about twice the number who said that of Clinton - and three-quarters gave him credit for being candid...
...Black is candid, though, about her belly flops, most notably Talk magazine. Its superstar editor, Tina Brown, hosted "the party of the decade" to launch the celebrity and politics magazine in 1999, but it never connected with readers and went out of business two years later. In her book, Black admits that Hearst was seduced by the hype around the magazine. "Don't allow the siren song of the buzz to keep you from paying sufficient attention to the basics," she cautions...
...tricky here since young people revere their stars and don't really want to look behind their curtains. But the producers green-lighted local versions of the extreme-sports and street-skills show Barrio 19--one early episode features "dune-bashing," driving ATVs fast through the desert--and the Candid Camera-style Boiling Points...
...same location in a national day of anti-war activity. In place of cute campaign slogans and rhetorical flourishes about “moral character” and “political backbone,” the speakers denounced Democrats and Republicans alike for complicity in an imperial occupation. Candid, heterogeneous speech replaced the official, recycled prose of four days before. At free speech tables following the march, students coordinated coalitions and outlined visions. Whereas the first rally demonstrated the hollowness of the representative ideal, the second embodied the kind of conception of democracy we urgently need. The contrast between...
...well-known poet Carl Sandburg, published a biography, Steichen the Photographer, in 1929. In later years, Steichen's portraits tended toward show-business types like Gloria Swanson, mysterious behind a layer of lace, and W.C. Fields, hamming it up in his pajamas in one of the exhibition's few candid shots...