Word: gee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's boyish enthusiasm is part of his public appeal, and that gee-whiz attitude begins at home. As the President told TIME in an interview, "When something unusual happens, or something important in my life, or something that I hear about, the first thing in my mind is, 'Wait till I tell Nancy!' It's that way between us." Even political decisions are cast in romantic terms. Of the period a year ago, when Reagan wanted her to go along with his desire to seek re-election, she says, "I guess he was wooing...
...Gee, Dad, you seem...
Answering machines can be very funny. They have their protocols and social comedies. Does one play one's messages when one has just come home with a guest? What intimacies and embarrassments will come flying out of the machine before one leaps for the stop button? "Gee, I wonder who that could have been...
...screen long enough to succeed. Hart Bochner plays Ethan, a sort of distaff Lois Lane, with as much quirky nervousness as Margot Kidder brought to Lane. The chubby Vaccarro seems to be the only veteran comfortable with her part, which entirely consists of insults and sarcastic variations on "Gee whiz, Selena...
...scraps from the election will be left to trivial pursuers. Who said "Where's the beef?" How old is Gary Hartpence? Certain things will not be so readily forgotten: Mario Cuomo's keynote address at the Democratic Convention at one extreme, and George Bush's gee-whillikerisms at the other. The television debates-strangely useless and useful-will await their playbacks in 1988. Two forces in American politics certainly will not go away: women and blacks. Two issues, abortion and church and state, will not go away either. It should be interesting to see how they...