Word: dukakises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NOW YOU KNOW by Kitty Dukakis with Jane Scovell (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). What starts out as another sad story of anxiety and alcohol abuse by the wife of a public official eventually turns into a moving saga of courage as the author struggles to come back from a defeat far...
Last week's explosions resulted from particularly combustible circumstances. In Oklahoma, voters gagged on tax increases and focused their animosity on the state legislature. Thus they were primed for the term-limit referendum, billed by its backers as "a citizens' revolt against professional politicians." In Massachusetts the economy had imploded...
Enter John Silber, president of Boston University, a Reaganite Democrat who has long advertised his disdain for Dukakis. Silber tossed off offensive remarks -- toward bureaucrats, the elderly, feminists, ghetto residents, Jews -- the way most candidates distribute campaign buttons. But he came across as an exemplar of change (and anger) at...
Being a non-politician has been helpful to many candidates, and William Weld, the pluperfect blueblood who won the Republican primary to oppose Silber in November, also played that card. His opponent, Steven Pierce, the house minority leader, matched Bellotti's shopworn look. The record turnout of Bay State voters...
At the time of the Nasser interview, Fisher had already made a name for himself outside Harvard as the host of a television show called "The Advocates," a program which former presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis would later host. For the purpose of securing the Nasser interview, however, the fact...