Word: geniality
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...shrewd to rely totally on Jimmy Carter's coattails, Democrat James Sasser decided to run hard against incumbent Bill Brock and win their Senate race largely on his own. The genial Sasser tormented his rich opponent for refusing to make a full disclosure of his finances, for paying only $2,000 in federal taxes on his 1975 income of $51,000, and for refusing to make his 1974 tax return public. Starting out 30 points behind in the polls, Sasser scored a stunning upset over a highly regarded conservative who had hopes for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination...
With his somewhat wooden speaking style, Thompson campaigned intelligently and energetically seven days a week. The strapping (6 ft. 6 in., 200 Ibs.) Thompson also put on slacks and cowboy boots to appear more folksy. He pictured the genial but ineffectual Hewlett, who had been Illinois' secretary of state, as the embodiment of old-style politics. Thompson now has his work cut out for him: he has only a two-year term and faces a cantankerous legislature controlled by the Democrats. But his smashing win has catapulted him into national prominence as a possible Republican presidential contender...
...Ford plunged into those states, his camp aired half-hour regional shows in which film clips of his final noisy rallies were juxtaposed with quiet, informal chats between the President and ebullient Sportscaster Joe Garagiola. "How many leaders have you dealt with, Mr. President?" asks genial Joe. "One hundred and twenty-four leaders of countries around the world, Joe," replies the President. Despite reports that Carter had far less money left than Ford and would not be able to match the President's TV onslaught, the Georgian's aides had paid for their final TV and radio time weeks...
...from the first-person "I" narrative form that has preserved whatever degree of credibility the story maintains. Stephanie in the third person, Stephanie as "she," makes fairly ludicrous fiction. She turns up, not drowned but hinting darkly at the presence of terminal cancer, tooting around the Southwest with a genial young homosexual whom she patronizes, mothers and seems to be weaning away from a fear of feminine flesh. Meanwhile she scribbles notes to her husband and communes with herself about nurturing and whether women can ever be happy free of it, about sex and whether androgyny would be better, about...
...last week the genial Brent Scowcroft, Ford's national security adviser, was on the phone to the Pentagon. Did the Army engineers, he asked, create a fake mushroom cloud for a re-enactment of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima put on in Texas by a bunch of antique-airplane buffs? The Japanese were outraged. It turned out, to Scowcroft's relief, that Army engineers were not involved. But for a few perilous moments it appeared that the White House might have another illegitimate foundling on its doorstep...