Word: deaver
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...President George Bush. With the Dukakis campaign, I felt as if I was watching high school football - fumbles, missed blocks, lost luggage, half-filled auditoriums, adolescent amateurism. The Bush campaign, on the other hand, was professional football: clickity-click clockwork, perfect timing, glitzy graphics, all the legacy of Mike Deaver image-control and perfectionism...
...show has hilarious improvisations, such as Al Gore's touch football game, shown everywhere on television. Did Mike Deaver come out of retirement (and change political parties) to coach Al and Tipper? "Think Hyannisport, 1960 - think Kennedys!" Gore gets credit for the best cynical JFK imitation since 1988, when Gary Hart would descend from his campaign plane with one hand thrust in his jacket pocket, thumb protruding, à la Jack, and walk gingerly across the tarmac, as if he had injured his back while swimming away from the wreckage of a PT boat...
...show has hilarious improvisations, such as Al Gore's touch football game, shown everywhere on television. Did Mike Deaver come out of retirement (and change political parties) to coach Al and Tipper? "Think Hyannisport, 1960 - think Kennedys!" Gore gets credit for the best cynical JFK imitation since 1988, when Gary Hart would descend from his campaign plane with one hand thrust in his jacket pocket, thumb protruding, à la Jack, and walk gingerly across the tarmac, as if he had injured his back while swimming away from the wreckage of a PT boat...
...that). Sorry, we were politely informed, but the party previously booked at our table was running a bit long, and would we mind taking a seat at the bar downstairs? We trotted down the thickly carpeted stairs and sat down at the bar - five feet from Reagan adviser Michael Deaver! He was having a Coke and telling a story about not having hot water in a hotel room, which my lunch partner pointed out was probably code for "Contras" and "Nicaragua...
...plan to partly privatize Social Security or his promise to reform Section 8 housing. Bush faces the apathy born of prosperity. "I just can't remember a time when the public's been so tuned out of a presidential campaign," says Ronald Reagan's famous imagemaker, Michael Deaver. "People are going to make their decision based on the impression a candidate makes more than anything else." Like John Kennedy, who ran in the prosperity of the Eisenhower years in 1960, Bush must exploit Americans' desire for what chief strategist Karl Rove calls "reasonable change"--a yearning for what they already...