Word: contrasts
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...Eastern European blooper aside, Ford gave an adequate performance (see following story). The whole debate was a 90-min. slugfest, in which both candidates threw roundhouse punches-a sharp contrast to the first dreary confrontation. But last week's encounter was more style than substance. Both candidates showed something of a box-score mentality, with Carter ticking off the names of the countries he has visited and Ford listing the names of the foreign leaders he has met. Carter greatly overstated America's weaknesses in the world. Ford's inability to put across his Administration...
...contrast, Hayakawa frequently admits he does not know the answers to questions that are put to him-and does not care. Asked about a California ballot proposition to legalize greyhound racing, Hayakawa snapped: "I don't give a good goddam about greyhounds. I can't think of anything that interests me less." He told another audience: "U.S. Senators don't know everything. For every damn Senator, there are 57 subjects they don't know a damn thing about." Such political humanizing goes down well, but it may have its limitations. The Tunney camp is confident that...
...other candidate actually is a professor, but with his practiced flamboyance, a wardrobe of elegant mismatches and a manner that oscillates from pixie to pedagogue and back within a 60-second monologue, he comes across more like a ripe character actor in search of his next role. The contrast is appropriate because rarely do voters get a chance to choose between candidates for the Senate-or any other office-who differ so clearly in persona and policy as New York Senator James Buckley and his Democratic challenger, Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
Abortion provides a significant contrast between the candidates. Both oppose abortion on demand. But Buckley is a champion of the Right to Life movement and author of a proposed constitutional amendment that would severely restrict abortion. Moynihan is against any such amendment, arguing that it would be "coercion" of one group by another. "We are in a post-Constantinian church," he says. "We really cannot expect our moral code to be translated into the legal code...
...near-total contrast to his foe, the urbane Brock, 45, is a reserved, colorless campaigner, a politician who often seems ill at ease at his own rallies. He owes his past victories (four House races and his 1970 conquest of Senator Albert Gore) to his superb organizational skills, on which his hopes for re-election also rest. Brock's conservatism goes down well in Tennessee; he has 15,000 volunteers at work, and he will probably spend more than $1 million by Nov. 2, compared with $500,000 by Sasser. But Tennesseans traditionally cotton more to the down...