Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strength of that image can not be overestimated. For not only has it vitiated any critical focus on Gerald Ford's record, but it has also surrounded the man with an aura of virtue that is in fact denied by Ford's record in office and his performance in the presidential campaign. The American people have been conned before, and apparently they are being conned again. Before election day arrives, a look at old newspapers might 'be worthwhile, for too many things seem to have been forgotten...
Carter's campaign has also featured an extraordinary focus on the need for providing the country with firm, ethical leadership. This deemphasis of the prime substantive issues is disturbing both in this campaign and in American politics generally. Yet it remains accurate--as polls of the electorate show--that our present national malaise can be traced in part back to our leaders. Richard M. Nixon showed Americans that it is possible to sling enough mud, in public and in private, to rise from the gutter into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And the now-pardoned president also consistently set a model...
Dole was wrong: in its own way, the debate helped to enliven-and even to focus more sharply-the 1976 presidential campaign...
Dean survived, despite the opposition of powerful foes and his own vacillations, mainly because he had no false story to protect and he had an amazing ability to recall the truth. Yet there were times during the testimony when a date would slip out of focus and "the whole edifice would crumble." There were times when he wanted to forget everything. Once he lashed out at the prosecutors, telling his lawyer: "Don't those bastards know I'm going to jail? I can't keep churning this Watergate crap out. I'm tired of turning...
...long as women are not pressured into using emotional orgasm as a substitute for real orgasms." She also suggests that the presence of the penis in the vagina may reduce a woman's chances for intense orgasm by acting "as a pacifier"-dispersing sexual tension and diffusing the focus of orgasm. Still, she says, this soothing may bring women a feeling of fulfillment without orgasm...