Word: enthusiasm
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...wrote the reminiscence of Bobby Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign in this week's issue, moved to Washington for TIME in 1965. By then Bobby and Teddy Kennedy were Senators, and Gorey became a frequent visitor to Hickory Hill, Bobby's estate in Virginia. "I shared with Ethel an enthusiasm for tennis," he says. He also sometimes met with Bobby on Saturdays. "He would go to his office wearing old clothes, with his dog Brumus and kids trailing behind," Gorey recalls. "We would talk about Viet Nam and the speculation that he would challenge Lyndon Johnson for the White House...
...launched not a single imaginative political theme, has outlasted seven rivals. Barring acts of God, this candidate described by one of his own aides as an "earnest nerd" will be the nominee. Sighs of relief were audible among much of the Democratic establishment. Because Dukakis evokes wild enthusiasm? Hardly. A TIME poll last week conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman showed that only 34% of registered voters consider Dukakis an "exciting" candidate (vs. 66% for Jackson). Rather, the party has grown weary of a nominating contest that combined the worst elements of burlesque and trench warfare. Now at last the stable...
...Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, 68, a beefy Cleveland autoworker extradited from the U.S. in 1986, insisted that he was a victim of mistaken identity. But the judges determined that he "held a central role in the Treblinka order and carried out his tasks with a great deal of enthusiasm." Originally a soldier in the Soviet army, Demjanjuk apparently became a guard after being captured by the Nazis. Vivid testimony came from eight Jews who survived the Treblinka horrors. Demjanjuk's lawyers argued that a survivor could not reliably remember events that occurred so long ago. Responded Presiding Judge Dov Levin...
...young man, Ballard was drawn to surrealist art and its realistic images of fantasies. He retains this enthusiasm. Using money he earned from Empire of the Sun, he commissioned an artist to re-create two paintings by the Belgian Paul Delvaux that had been destroyed in London during the Blitz. One of these large canvases sits in Ballard's front parlor, and the other presides over his workroom, an unsettling tableau of dream maidens and bare breasts in an otherwise comfortable setting. "Sadly," Ballard says, "the only surrealists around these days are psychopaths. But we all need to fight...
...week as the host of the Disney Sunday Movie, where the husky-voiced executive clowns with Mickey, Minnie and other colleagues. "This job is so perfect for him," says Dawn Steel, president of Columbia Pictures and a former co-worker at Paramount. "He's childlike in terms of his enthusiasm and how he sees the world. He's eternally young." Nowadays when the 6-ft. 3-in. chairman strolls through Disney's theme parks with his family, fans scurry up for autographs and snapshots. "I'm not exactly a movie star," Eisner says, "but I'm very popular with under...