Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Squier said that while the character of both candidates was fairly unknown, Bush defined himself as gentle and kind. But in a reference to cartoonist Garry Trudeau's attacks, Squier said Bush showed "his evil twin Skippy" when he got the chance to portray Dukakis as weak and unpatriotic.
Dukakis also had other selling points: he was bland enough not to offend anyone, unknown enough to reformulate his character throughout the course of a national campaign, and had a financial war chest that could rival the fundraising abilities of any Republican.
Lange only inhabits her films; she doesn't write or direct them. Shepard assumed those two tasks in Far North and distinguished himself in neither. The plot is as old as Antigone, the emotional temperature as wintry as Ingmar Bergman's, the conflict as scabrous as any Eugene O'Neill...
As the one character who grows and doesn't just calcify, Lange brings wily zest to each step in Babs' coming-out party. She can toss dewy-eyed soul into a line like "I just want to be Mrs. Gavin Grey" -- all ardor, no condescension. She can bear, with a...
Although pledge sales, in which new fraternity members hire themselves out to do menial labor, are common, the racial character of the ZBT auction was highly unusual, students said.