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...Just Fluff. Carter made it clear that Vice President-elect Walter Mondale and Jordan would be his two closest advisers when the final decisions are made on the key appointments. Jordan retracted an earlier statement that to have familiar figures like former Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance in the Cabinet would represent a failure for the President-elect. At the same time, he emphasized, "If, however, everyone in the Carter Government had been here before, I think we would have failed." Jordan added that for every major position, Carter wants at least one minority figure and one woman...
...trying to locate talent, Transition Chief Watson, who had reserved a $ 150,000 budget out of campaign funds, disappointed the Carter camp. Said one aide: "The transition just wasn't happening." Some of Watson's papers on the transition were described as "just fluff" by this aide. "They're about what you'd expect from a group of graduate students with several months and $150,000 to spend," he said. Much of the criticism centered on Watson's personnel lists, which one aide described as unfocused and deficient in political judgment. The lists were apparently...
...other way than curled up in bed late in the night, never looking away from the pages until the last savory morsel has been devoured. But toward the end of the meal, as depression threatens to dampen the reader's enthusiasm, the stark reality behind the lascivious, B-rated fluff emerges...
...feels that Reagan got as far as he did largely because "he is a good speaker, he comes across well on TV -after all, that was his trade. Reagan is an attractive and appealing man-I like him. Jerry Ford is not fluff; he knows the real meat-and-potatoes part." Betty is critical of Nancy's opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. "I just think that when Nancy met Ronnie, that was it as far as her own life was concerned. She just fell apart at the seams...
Winner of ten Tony awards as producer and/or director of such Broadway productions as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Candide, and Company, Hal Prince has practically redefined the modern American musical, swapping its persistent tradition of formulaic fluff and glossy chorus lines for social themes and theatrical vigor. Pacific Overtures, his latest offering, features an all-Asian cast, score by collaborator Steven Sondheim, and a story based on Matthew Perry's invasion on Japan, sailed out of its Boston try-outs last week (after meeting with some rough weather from the critics) for a January 11th docking...