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...guess. Buddy's decision to remain chaste was realistic for a girl her age. Going to bed with Zack also might have been realistic, except that television's conservatism, especially in hit series, ruled it out. The show was not really about making a choice; it was a coy and irritating tease...
...Reporter James Wooten points out in a recent cover story in the Washington Post magazine recalling that unsuccessful interrogation, both the question and the Senator's coy answer will be analyzed countless more times. The punditry should reach a crest this week as journalists almost everywhere take yet another look at Kennedy and his intentions. The reason for the outpouring: it will be exactly ten years since a car driven by Kennedy plunged off the bridge at Chappaquiddick, next to Martha's Vineyard, and a young female aide drowned...
...Coy Kennedy...
Other papers played it coy. CARTER FLEXES HIS WHIP ARM winked Boston's Herald American, which used the quote. In its headline, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner used three dots instead of the verboten word, then spelled it out in the story. Said Managing Editor Mary Anne Dolan: "It seemed an intriguing way of handling it. Just like a woman being more alluring in lingerie than in the nude...
Such are the coy ways of Ted Kennedy less than a year before the first 1980 presidential primary. He has become the biggest tease in American politics, announcing his support for Jimmy Carter's re-election one moment, hinting at his own ambitions the next, and all the while avoiding a categorical denial that he will run. Even House Speaker Tip O'Neill, an old friend, is not sure whether the Senator will end up declaring, but he is convinced of one thing: "If Kennedy were to run, Carter wouldn't get the nomination...