Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In a few months most of the scraps from the election will be left to trivial pursuers. Who said "Where's the beef?" How old is Gary Hartpence? Certain things will not be so readily forgotten: Mario Cuomo's keynote address at the Democratic Convention at one extreme...
Q. Your nomination in 1980 ended a long ideological split within your party, and your political success since then has kept that down. But at the Dallas convention we began to see the feud revive. Is it going to be possible to keep the party together philosophically? Or as you...
And then at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, Jackson made his cause clear. The morning after his stunning speech of conciliation and redemption, he spoke to the Black Caucus. "Women got what they want," he said, "in Geraldine Ferraro; the South got what it wants in Bert Lance. What...
I remember as the most vivid of the episodes of the long trail of 1984 the redefinition of the Democratic Party at its convention in San Francisco. The faces and feel were so completely different that only by effort could I remember the Democratic conventions of the '50s, dominated...
The set efficiently evokes the backstage of a rundown vaudeville house, with three large panels of circus-patterned scrim backstage. At several points, backlit actors pantomime the offstage action of the play, alleviating the inevitable boredom of this regrettable Elizabethean convention. But McDonough cannot stop with this modest tactic; he...