Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The dramas are curiously ritualistic and similar to one another. A celebrity wanders in the shadow world of Dysfunction: amid drugs or booze or binge eating. Or else in Denial of something, of incest, say, or child abuse, or another shameful secret. This is the Exemplary Ordeal. Celebrity Hits Bottom...
Japan bashing has become a national sport. Richard Gephardt, whose 1988 presidential campaign pioneered postcommunist xenophobia, gave us a precursor of the game with his anti-Korea TV ads. Michael Dukakis got more to the point with a campaign ad featuring an ominously rising sun. Now even a sensible moderate...
FRONT-RUNNERS often have a hard time recognizing that they are not the centers of the universe. This is what helped doom Gary Hart's campaign when he invited the press to follow him around to see if he was up to any hanky-panky. And it's what helped...
Nearly all the accusers are active Democrats; none had an obvious political motive to hurt Adams. Nor does the Times, which has abandoned its former Republican identity, and endorsed Michael Dukakis for President in 1988. Most compelling, the accusers had to be sought and coaxed. In one case, when a...
In fact, the President has to do both -- which helps explain why the Bush- Quayle campaign organization is currently divided over tactics. The re- election team has begun to exhibit a Dukakis-like tendency to botch easy wins, like the photo-op-that-failed with Ronald Reagan in California two...