Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writes about what it is to be an intellectual susceptible to popular culture," including Daffy Duck cartoon and Hollywood movies, said Vendler. While his poetry is often difficult to read, she added, Ashbery writes to have "the wrecking ball of experience" shatter the "ivory tower of intellectuals, so that the street noises can come...
There are Duck-the-Halls sleep gowns to wear night...
...Political Scientist Nelson Polsby, "he must deal with people with whom he is in disagreement. The smartest way to proceed is to behave cooperatively toward Congress." Stuart Spencer, a former Reagan adviser, would counsel the President to pick his battles with the Congress carefully, recognizing that as a lame duck he has precious little political capital to spend. "If he goes to the mat on every issue, he is going to have more problems," Spencer says. Congressman Richard Cheney of Wyoming warns against any grandiose attempt to recapture the past glory of Reaganism. Says...
Washington figures can be divided into those who have and those who have not developed the impervious veneer required by television -- that ability to duck an awkward question by talking about something else, the talent to pat-a- cake thoughts into little mouthfuls suitable for stopwatch programming. Of all the Senators and Congressmen on exhibit in recent televised hearings, Teddy Kennedy has the most undentable carapace. Many who watched the Bork hearings concluded that Kennedy and Utah's sycophantic Orrin Hatch vied in giving the worst performances. Yet Kennedy dominated the evening news coverage by crafting his wild charges into...
...confirmation process. Given the gauntlet that Bork had just run, the statement seemed gracious but a little naive. Given what is now known about Ginsburg, it was foolhardy. In the wake of his withdrawal, few were talking publicly about the long-range implications of the embarrassment. A lame-duck President who has been buffeted by scandal, a stock-market crash and the bruising defeat of his first court nominee could ill afford this latest fiasco...