Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deardourff joined the campaign staff to do research on issues. Deardourff, 45, is now in partnership with another TV whiz, Douglas Bailey, mostly handling moderate Republicans. He and Bailey were Gerald Ford's media experts, and though their candidate lost, they ran effective TV ads. Deardourff is as cool and managerial as Garth is gruff and feisty...
...World According to Garp is mostly about the true final frontier--human sexuality, the hysteria and madness and cool fun and hot passions therein...
...least the cool fun. Garp's trusted friend is the transsexual Roberta Muldoon, formerly Old Number 88; the crack-backing, pass-catching Robert Muldoon, star tight-end for the Philadelphia Eagles. When Roberta finally dies, there is a moment of silence before the Eagles take the field. "She had a great pair of hands," the announcer intones reverently...
...Kennedy's father--he was not, Schlesinger quickly points out, one who loudly accused and named traitors. Kennedy prepared a report calling for the cessation of all trade with mainland China, but says Schlesinger, "it was an able job, its facts well marshalled, its argument well organized, its tone cool." Schlesinger even manages to turn instances in which Bobby defended McCarthy around to Kennedy's advantage, saying the defense came from a "fondness" for McCarthy and an understanding of the old commie hunter's complexity...
...Commune. It is a model establishment, or it would not be on the F.F. itinerary. As the buses arrive, all hands of all ages are out to greet them, all smiling and hand-clapping (it beats weeding). The F.F.s, after Ni haos! and handshakes, are waved toward basins of cool water and stacks of fresh towels. Then they troop in for the Brief Introduction, the ritualistic prelude to any tourist attraction...