Word: client
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polling makes Caddell optimistic. Carter, he believes, has one huge advantage: the simple fact that he is the President. "This is my third presidential campaign," Caddell notes (George McGovern signed up as the first client of his newly organized Cambridge Survey Research a few months before Caddell graduated from Harvard in 1972), "and I've been on both sides. I'd rather run an incumbent's campaign than a challenger's, at any odds...
...King Tut spectacular, corporations have been looking for glamour art shows to sponsor as public relations coups. The logic of this situation, pressed to its extreme, is that the museum curator becomes a mere appendage to the p.r. firm, which finds a "sexy" theme, sells it to the client, sets up the package and punches it into museum schedules. Such is the case with "Hawaii: The Royal Isles," a blockbuster without the block, which opened last week at the Art Institute of Chicago. Until 1983, as it trundles from one major museum to another around the U.S., this show...
...Southern accent and her kittenish sexual ways. Bur nett has his 40th birthday and, having received his Betamax, wonders if that is all life has to offer. Next thing he knows he has bought a Porsche, had an affair with a Dallas Cowgirl and told off his best client...
Along the way he entertains various fantasies of telling off not just the client but the whole damn world. That's about it. Di rector Trent has no sense of style; Writer Kleinschmitt pencils in obscenities for his characters to spout instead of lines that the actors might savor delivering. Neither Dern nor Ann-Margret is ever able to get into character. They try gamely, but they remain sociological abstractions pasted into a tasteless, materialistic milieu that has been overexplored by novelists and moviemakers...
...deny that Trifa made anti-Semitic statements, was a wholehearted supporter of the pro-Nazi Legionary movement, and gave a speech on the eve of the 1941 riot. But he denies that Trifa was a Legionary leader, belonged to the Iron Guard, or intended to cause a pogrom. His client, he says, was forced to choose between the Soviets and Nazis, and chose the latter, adopting anti-Semitism that was rampant at the time...