Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bud Yorkin thinks so. And, as director of this summer's flop Arthur 2 on the Rocks, he should know. Yorkin is steamed at critics who torpedoed his movie for its portrait of an insouciant inebriate. "Arthur is a fantasy , character," he spumes, "just like Roger Rabbit. But that movie...
But doubts about experience and substance which plague any newcomer to national politics soon became serious questions of character. It's one thing to be young; it's quite another to be young and foolish and running for the presidency.
Douglas Ginsburg was a Baby Boomer of sorts himself, and though not a political candidate, he would have been the first of his generation to have become a Supreme Court justice. But he too fell victim to the same pattern. It began with questions about his competence: What scholarship had...
YOUTH is by definition a Janus-faced attribute, and he would likely have not suffered greatly had it been that he was only young. But in no time at all, questions about his substance as a political figure turned into questions about his personal character, and the combination is politically...
But so far the Baby Boom generation's leading lights have not been able to understand the bargain the public makes with age. They exaggerate their own accompishments, as Quayle has done in suggessting that he is unrivalled in his knowledge of national defense policy or Hart did in proclaiming...