Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earnest but lame attempt to satirize Dirty Harry-type heroes. CBS's Designing Women features a quartet of single friends in Atlanta who run a decorating business together, a sort of pre-mid-life Golden Girls. The show has a good cast (including Annie Potts and Dixie Carter) but an overload of formula gag writing ("Suzanne, if sex were fast food, there'd be an arch over your...
...turn up at the polls in greater numbers than most other groups. This time around they certainly provided most of Green's strength. In a low turnout that attracted just 13% of New York's 3.8 million Democratic voters, Green won by 34,000 votes. Says Washington Media Consultant Carter Eskew: "One lesson is that paid media in a primary is less effective than it would be in a general election. It's pretty clear that when you make a big advertising buy in a primary, you can waste millions of dollars on people who just aren't going...
...former Democrat who became a Reagan Republican upon accepting a White House staff appointment 17 months ago, takes the opposite stand on each of those controversial issues. Before Reagan appointed her staff director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in 1983, Chavez worked on civil rights enforcement in the Carter Administration (she now considers Carter "an absolute disaster as President") and held jobs with the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. She moved to Maryland two years ago, and although the Republicans face a 3-to-1 disadvantage in voter registration, her victory is considered critical...
...Asti, Calif. (pop. 7), now. That's a stepping city to the presidency." Ford's former press secretary Ron Nessen has put together a film of Ford falling down the plane ramp, announcing the swine flu vaccine program, falling on the ski slopes, liberating Poland in the debate with Carter, and showing off his WIN (Whip Inflation Now) button. "The media got those things all wrong," chortles Nessen. "Take the ramp incident. There's Ford down on all fours. He was just doing what the Pope does...
...been a frequent target of Schmidt's sharp tongue. He once described Jimmy Carter as a "faith healer" who made "policy from the pulpit." Schmidt resented economic lectures from American officials. "Not only is your inflation higher than ours," he would snap, "your unemployment rate is twice as high...