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...color and fabric is, as usual, dazzling. Heavy-duty industrial zippers are used with both leather and lace; effulgent Hudson's Bay blankets from L.L. Bean are trimmed with satin and turned into evening coats; a snazzy sequined evening dress is shaped and decorated like a football jersey. Vintage cartoon characters such as Felix the Cat and the Little King undercut and complement the high seriousness of a swank evening gown. The revelation of the show, which combines work from his first collection to his very latest, is its restless response to convention, its adventurousness about shape. "I love standards...
Dukakis and his staff nonetheless tend to see themselves in overly high- minded terms, as the innocent victims of sound-bite sabotage. Campaign chairman Brountas pointedly walked to the back of the Dukakis plane last week to give ABC newsman Sam Donaldson a copy of a Doonesbury cartoon that lampooned Bush aide Atwater as dictating the message of the day to a network news director. Similarly, Estrich, who kept her title in the Dukakis campaign while yielding to Sasso responsibility for shaping the campaign's message, claims, "The campaign staff is far more important on the Republican side, where...
...line drew large cheers. Sam Donaldson, poking back for the Doonesbury cartoon, told Brountas, "We can't use that." But, of course, he did. On the flight back to Boston, press secretary Dayton Duncan celebrated with a slug of bourbon: "We made the evening news." This, admittedly, was a paltry triumph for the nominee of a major party in September, but it conveys the dire mood that had prevailed in the Dukakis camp and the elation over the shifts that were under way. "This is not brain surgery," said Francis O'Brien, a Sasso recruit to the campaign. "Republicans have...
...heart in recent weeks--he can point to his own record of sharp political commentary. Few other prominent critics of the campaign between Gov. Michael Dukakis and Vice President George Bush have offered a thumb-nail sketch of their own publicly held political convictions, let alone a four-panel cartoon...
...higher taxes; characteristics and competence of George Bush and Michael Dukakis; attitudes toward Dan Quayle; desire for change from Reagan Administration policies, August, 1987-August, 1988; familiarity with candidates; negative voting results; black and white: two photographs: White House, Dan Quayle, both used as background for charts; color reproduction: cartoon of man sitting in chair, back view, and deciding how to vote...