Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwhelming percentage of blacks, and thinner majorities among Jewish voters, union households and those earning less than $10,000 a year. Period. Reagan took everything else, sweeping every imaginable category of voter: young, middle-aged and elderly; low, middle and high income; Protestant and Roman Catholic; professional and blue collar...
...Jersey, blue-collar voters went for Reagan 57% to 43%, according to NBC'S exit polls. In Pennsylvania, Reagan beat Mondale among voters ages 18 to 24 by 55% to 45%. Reagan won New York's Italian vote by a stunning 63% to 37%, despite the presence of an Italian American from New York, Geraldine Ferraro, on the Democratic ticket. Even 28% of New York's self-described liberals voted for Reagan...
...future elections-may be that no political party can count on any group's automatic allegiance any more. A candidate with national appeal can win an election without catering to the interests of individual voting blocs. "Reagan does not have to target a set of issues for blue-collar workers, a program for Hispanics or women," says Pollster Wirthlin. "He appeals to all Americans." -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Joseph N. Boyce/Atlanta and John E. Yang/ Washington, with other bureaus
...story of Jake Rubin (played with starched-collar sobriety by Peter Riegert) is straight out of a grade-B musical bio. Jake goes to work as a waiter but is soon writing songs for a gruff but good-hearted music publisher (Stubby Kaye). Eventually he is the toast of Broadway, rubbing shoulders with Flo Ziegfeld and wooing a nightclub singer (Ann Jillian) whom he marries and makes a star. "When I first saw the Statue of Liberty," he tells her, "I thought it was the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen. But I hadn't seen...
...blood will invigorate the nation!" she prophetically declared hours before her assassination. As the people of the world mourn her death today, they know that her spirit will live on in the hearts and minds of the people of India--the peasents in the fields, the blue collar workers in the factories and offices and the businessmen and lawyers in the air-conditioned high rises of Bombay and New Delhi. In her life and now, in her death, Indira had something to say to them...