Word: facedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If Dukakis maintains his vague approach and still wins--not inconceivable, considering Bush's propensity for shooting himself in the behind--he may well suffer from the same symptoms Carter faced as president.
It was literally an eleventh-hour rescue for the city of Yonkers. Convening at 11:55 p.m. last Friday, the city council finally agreed to comply with a federal judge's order to build 800 units of moderate-income housing in predominantly white neighborhoods. On Friday escalating fines imposed by...
It is the least impersonal of cities. Understatement has no place here. Rather, this is a brawny, rough-and-tumble, rollicking place, animated by the earthy good humor of its Chaucerian folk. Hurly-burly impromptu is the way of Seoul. Round-faced women set up huge speakers on busy street...
THE GONG SHOW. Getting booed is an unavoidable part of the campaign trail. How one responds to it, however, is crucial for the TV image. When Dukakis faced rowdy antiabortion demonstrators in suburban Chicago last week, he tried to settle them with lawyer-like reasonableness ("I respect your right to...
In American politics, shows of familial affection have always cloyed, but things are out of hand. You can hardly see the candidate through the thicket of loving kin. Mr. and Mrs. Dukakis danced and smooched and hugged so effectively in public that George Bush, faced with an ominous family gap...