Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The eagle-feather episode was merely a minor diversion in comparison with what one Mondale strategist says "is still the No. 1 problem around the convention": Jackson's role. Mondale Campaign Manager Robert Beckel detected a cooperative mood during a three-hour private dinner over ribs with Jackson in Kansas...
Some Jackson supporters continue to talk a hard line about what Mondale must do to win their man's enthusiastic backing. They say Jackson will demand that Mondale appoint key members of Jackson's staff to top campaign posts, grant Jackson considerable influence over how the party spends its voter...
San Francisco is beautiful, vivacious. San Francisco is physically dramatic. San Francisco is funky but clean, elegant but spunky. San Francisco is tolerant of crazes (beatniks, hippies, microchip venture capitalists), yet preserves the old (cable cars, Victorian follies). If an out-of-town churl dares suggest that the city may...
Viewers of a national political convention are sometimes encouraged to believe that the proceedings themselves are all-consuming, that life outside the convention hall somehow grinds to a halt while the party goes about the momentous business of drafting a platform and picking a ticket. Delegates know better. Like tourists...
Readers of Caen soon learn more than they may want to know about his dietary habits (Shredded Wheat for breakfast), his haberdasher (Wilkes Bashford) and his favorite restaurants (Le Central and the Tadich Grill). Some of his word gags not only time eggs but also lay them ("bumpersnickers," for the...