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...Reagan and I spoke mostly about Edgar Bergen. The famous ventriloquist had died, and Reagan had just returned from the funeral. His convivial spirit had been quietened by sorrow. His face was drawn; his thoughts were with his friend; there was a sad smudge of theatrical makeup on the cuff of his shirt, one of the stigmata of the politician in this age of television...
Three Harvard bands--the Dance Bandits. Jane's Parents and Off the Cuff--as well as a student-run disc-jockey company. Liquid Sound, all provided tree music for the marathon...
Glenn is so prosaic that sometimes he has trouble reciting the vivid rhetoric of his staff-written speeches. His off-the-cuff remarks are rote and usually filled with military acronyms, numbing statistics and gawky phrases like "Nobel laureate-type research." He rarely seems loose in public, let alone passionate. Nor is it just a matter of style: his ideas tend to be fuzzy when they are not unimaginative. "Voters are looking for candidates with some vision of what this country can be," says Chicago's Lawrence Walsh, a media consultant...
...integrity, tradition and education was responsible for what organizers consider to be a modest list of 10 official memorabilia items (Since drawing up and publishing the list. Harvard and Yale have stopped offering two items, because of little interest. Women's Stick Pin ($65) and the 14k gold cuff links, whose price had been available upon request...
...presidential campaign mainly by staying home in Plains and taking care of Granddaughter Amy, whom she called "my heart." But she also found time for speeches and TV interviews, charming the public with her ingenuous candor. That outspokenness continued after Carter's election, though her off-the-cuff comments sometimes could be embarrassing to the increasingly beleaguered President. During the Iranian hostage crisis, she blurted that she would like to have the Ayatullah Khomeini assassinated...