Word: frosts
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Dukakis, now universally regarded as the party's front runner, kept boasting that he was a "national candidate" thanks to his clear-cut victories in Texas and Florida. But an artfully tailored campaign that garnered the support of Hispanics in South Texas and Frost Belt refugees in the condo canyons of South Florida did not transform Dukakis into a win-Dixie Democrat. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor left few footprints in the red clay of the traditional South; in Alabama and Mississippi, he won less than 10% of the vote. "Dukakis gained a half step on everyone else this week," said...
...grip. She plays the part so the audience doesn't know whether to feel sympathetic or repulsed. It's disturbing to watch Susan's forceful personality grow into something malicious until she becomes a large blonde cobra spitting venom at her husband, the long-suffering Raymond Brock (Josh Frost). "I married him because he reminded me of my father," she says at a diplomatic gathering. "I didn't realize how much of a shit my father was." And it's mysteriously touching near the end, when she wistfully tells one of her many lovers, "There...
...Frost delivers another classic acting job. Early in his performance, he has a mixture of regality and clumsiness that is as confusing as it is recognizable. His character wavers between a confident, debonair diplomat and a parody of a bureaucrat, such as when he attempts to explain to Susan the benefits of the embalming process. "It keeps the body from exploding at a bad moment," he tells her. When he sees the expression on her face: "Of course, any moment would be a bad moment--that goes without saying." Later, as her husband, he swings quickly and adroitly from...
While Kalb exemplifies the laid-back, more intellectual approach, the more provocative method can be found in David Frost's program "The Next President." Frost, who also interviewed a dozen would-be presidents in hour-long installments, made every effort to catch his guests off guard. Frost asked the Rev. Pat Robertson to explain what it was like to speak in tongues, and relentlessly questioned Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.) about contradictions in his views on abortion...
Kalb, who says he saw three of Frost's interviews, balks at the slightest comparison between the two shows. "I don't think there was anything similar at all except that they were both within an hour context and they were both on television," he says. "If [the three I saw] were representative of the other nine, they were soft, People magazine, substanceless fluff," says Kalb. Moreover, Kalb points out that despite Frost's higher budget and more explosive style, "Candidates '88" received more coverage in the media. Clearly, even an academic likes to keep track of his headlines...