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CRITICISMS OF CARTER. Clearly, the Democratic nominee was hurt by the first debate. By 41% to 28%, the people interviewed said they thought that Ford was the victor. While the debate and a month of further campaigning have, made Carter less of an enigma-35% now regard him as too much of an unknown, down 5 percentage points since August-many voters dislike what they see in him. Of those surveyed, 54% call him fuzzy on the issues (up from 51% in August), 55% say he overpromises (up from 48%), 53% complain that he changes his stands (up from...
...country for some 21 months now, Candidate Carter has revealed a great deal about himself. At times he has been extraordinarily -even embarrassingly-candid about his personal views on subjects ranging from religion to lust. Yet many of Carter's strong supporters still regard him as an;enigma, a kind of populist Hamlet whose cross-purposes and mixed signals have so jammed the nation's sen sory network that little more than static has emerged at the receiving end. A line from a Kris Kristofferson song might well have been written about Carter's multifaceted personality...
These days the People's Republic of China is a very popular thing to watch. Yet even with Chairman Mao Tse-tung, a master of enigma, gone, not much is clearly perceptible...
...manner of objects-chairs, trees, cars, women, motorcycles and, in 1968 at "Documenta" in Kassel, West Germany, a 280-ft. column of air-with rope, canvas and sheet plastic. If this all amounted to little more than a series of energetic variations on Man Ray's 1920 Enigma of Isidore Ducasse (a sewing machine wrapped and tied in sackcloth and rope), it gave Christo the base for more grandiose and original schemes. In 1969 he went to Australia and used 1 million sq. ft. of synthetic cloth to wrap a mile of rocky coastline. In 1972 he hung...
...best thing Ford has going for him seems to be, well, Jimmy Carter. The Georgian is still an enigma to much of the public, including many of his own supporters. Fully 65% of the Ford voters cite their doubts about Carter as a very important reason in making their selection. That reason leads the list of others for supporting the President: he is at least a known quantity (54%), he has more experience (52%), he has been an effective President (50%). Only 15%, however, consider the fact that he is a Republican to be an important element in their choice...