Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That, for the most part, remained the only unanswered question during network election night coverage. The president's wife had suffered a fall in her hotel room early Monday morning. The ever exact Reagan White House announced that she stepped out of bed around 3 a.m. because "she was chilly." Since her fall, Mrs. Reagan has experienced a "dizziness" She appeared unsteady as she stepped from the presidential helicopter, regained her composure when she voted, only to hesitate yet again while leaving the polling place. How would the late-night landslide excitement affect the First Lady...
...Ferraro as a woman candidate but as an American I think I should say nothing about the Ferraro candidacy but I will speak now as a woman so I will comment on Ferraro as a woman and how her campaign has affected American women." No, that's not an exact transcript. But it's close enough. And it typifies the problem of Tuesday's coverage: too much time and too little...
...serious, and more obvious, slips. Reagan in his summation absentmindedly referred to "the policies of weakness of the last four years," as if he had traveled in a time machine back to 1980. Mondale taxed the President with not knowing that submarine-launched missiles are "recallable"; he meant the exact opposite. Reagan got a big laugh by deriding a TV ad showing Mondale on the deck of an aircraft carrier, which the President identified as the Nimitz; if Mondale's policies had been followed, said Reagan, "he'd be deep in the water" because the Nimitz would never...
...books with the game and concluded that the authors cribbed heavily from his Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia of 1978 and its sequel of 1981. He alleges that the Genus edition is 33% his work and the Silver Screen version 22%. Worth says the authors often filched his exact wording, even picking up his mistakes. Chris Haney, one of the game's three authors, claims that dozens of people have sued them. Says he: "A guy in Ireland claims he invented the game ten years ago." Trivia fans this year are expected to shell out about $750 million...
Despite the evidence of a revived interest in manners and elegance, a number of people would argue the exact opposite, that manners continue to get worse and are nearing the point of invisibility. "Manners have taken a beating these last 25 years," says Eppie Lederer, a.k.a. Ann Landers, the advice columnist. "It isn't just that men aren't opening car doors for women or offering them seats on subways or buses. It goes deeper than that. The high crime rate is one thing that discourages openness and courtesy to strangers. The chances are that...