Word: dan
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This living-room war last week produced a titanic battle -- Wednesday night's Donnybrook between Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle -- that might be called The Revenge of the Second Bananas. Bentsen was solid, senatorial and soothingly statesmanlike. Quayle, who often seemed as lost as an actor missing half the pages of his script, struggled to overcome his own Throttlebottom image -- and lost. The one-sided debate did not instantly alter the Electoral College arithmetic favoring George Bush, but it did appear to have kept the race open as the two presidential contenders head toward their final face...
...Dan Quayle made a promise to the American people before the vice-presidential debate: "You're going to see the real Dan Quayle." Until Wednesday night, many Americans thought the real Dan Quayle was a sunny, overconfident, high- spirited young man who had spent more time on the golf links than in the library. But the Dan Quayle at the debate was a different person: a grim, wooden, frightened fellow who had stayed up late memorizing answers for the big test. So nervous were Bush's handlers that they denied Quayle any chance to be spontaneous, transforming him instead into...
...pundits were pummeling Quayle from both left and right. At first the Bush campaign expressed guarded satisfaction. Quayle was bloodied but unbeaten. Bush's reaction was predictably hyperbolic: Quayle "knocked it right out of the park." But campaign chief Jim Baker, never a Quayle fan, seemed to be damning Dan with faint praise: "When you think about what might have happened, we have to be pretty happy...
...restocks it with human-scale humor. Judd Hirsch stars as a divorced schoolteacher gingerly exploring the single life. On his first visit to a singles group, he meets a sly assemblage of oddballs, including a group leader fixated on sex and a hilariously sleazy skirt chaser (Jere Burns doing Dan Aykroyd's E. Buzz Miller). Executive producer Ed. Weinberger (Mary Tyler Moore) and Director James Burrows (Taxi) are masters at milking a gag till it comes out grade A, and Hirsch's deadpan timing has never been more acute...
...only thing dumber than the questions about taking over the presidency in an emergency ("What would be the first steps you would take?") was Dan Quayle's failure to point out just how dumb...