Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrats insult us by saying we voted for President Reagan because of his personality and not his policies. The American people decisively rejected Jimmy Carter in 1980 and in 1984 even more overwhelmingly rejected his clone...
...came to TIME in 1976, and was the magazine's national political correspondent before taking over its biggest bureau. "Washington's contrasts have always been sharp and somewhat eccentric," Ajemian recalls. "The two Presidents I have covered have been opposites in styles of wielding power. Jimmy Carter was uncomfortable with it, Ronald Reagan has instinctively employed it. Power is Washington's industry, and watching its practitioners use it and project it has fascinated me for seven years...
...time Tennessee's Jacob Franklin ("Jake") Butcher hobnobbed with the likes of Jimmy Carter and Bert Lance, controlled 26 banks with his brother and had an estimated personal worth of $400 million. But his fall has been as spectacular as his rise. In 1983 Butcher went broke, and ten of the banks were declared insolvent. Last week Butcher, 48, together with a longtime business associate and a lawyer, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tenn...
...easily as bend steel bars, would certainly have demanded a salary several orders of magnitude greater than the cost of a nubile unknown. A second coast-to-coast star search would generate gobs of favorable publicity. And the same people who enjoyed watching Charlie's Angels or Linda Carter bounce around as Wonder Woman are a sure bet to see this movie...
...super-hero film, then "Supergirl" is by far the worst of the four Super films. But if you feel, as most of Hollywood seems to, that stupidity, capriciousness, and a big bust are the prerequisite of being a female hero, Supergirl supererogates even the execrable standard set by Linda Carter's Wonder Woman. And that's a pretty big suit to fill...