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...candidate is likely to win a delegate majority before the primary and caucus season ends in June. But that does not necessarily mean a modern-day version of a brokered convention, where a cabal of Democratic leaders finally gather under NO SMOKING signs to award the nomination to Mario Cuomo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: A Bartered Nomination? | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Advice from the sidelines. As the contest between Bush and Dole turned nasty, Mario Cuomo told Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk: "Tell your candidates to go out on the stage and stand there holding hands and humming The Star-Spangled Banner. Hum it -- don't sing it, because then they would have to open their lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Grapevine | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...while the coach tried a different approach. "Get mad," she said. "Can't you get mad?" Finally Dukakis had had enough. The voters, he declared, would have to take him as he is. "Look, I'm not Mario," he said defensively, referring to New York's demonstrative Governor Cuomo. "This just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Seals Off Emotion | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

What I did on my summer vacation. Last month Mario Cuomo privately telephoned a few influential friends with a startling proposition: that a group of them get together and back a candidate before the Iowa caucuses. When friends said the ploy would be disruptive and unwise, he abandoned the idea. Now he is back to making coy remarks. In his continuing quest not to be a candidate, Cuomo let drop last week that if pressed he could conceive of running for President during his summer vacation, since Albany virtually shuts down from July to October. He's not saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Grapevine | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Speaking Matilda. Is the press asking the wrong question? Maybe it's Cuomo's wife who's running. The Governor called a Washington friend last week to ask a special favor: Would the friend arrange for Wife Matilda to address the National Press Club in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Grapevine | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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