Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came to be seriously isolated. Franklin Roosevelt's mobility was restricted by his polio and then by wartime security. For Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, political adversity, in the form of Viet Nam and Watergate, made it painful to move around much in the country. (Four decades earlier, Herbert Hoover had suffered similar imprisonment by the Depression; he was not much of a mixer even in good times.) Nixon and Jimmy Carter were more or less reclusive Presidents by temperament. Reagan's curiosity is well contained. Eisenhower was somewhat less gregarious than the famous grin suggested; age and illness...
...Hagerty), a straight arrow with several bent feathers, into risking all their capital on this trundle into self-discovery. Their itinerary, compared with that of their role models, is truncated and painfully mainstream. It consists largely of Las Vegas, where she loses their nest egg in a night, and Hoover Dam, where they have a marital wrangle the scope of which matches the backdrop. But never mind this minimalism. Brooks (who directed Lost in America and co-wrote it with Monica Johnson) is a shrewd, deadpan observer of the secret life of middle-class Americans. He likes to bring their...
...other construction projects. But with no strings attached, cities often simply tucked the money into their general budgets, spending it on such traditionally local functions as police and fire fighters and even golf courses. Says Martin Anderson, a former Reagan adviser and now a fellow at California's Hoover Institution: "Revenue sharing is a pure grant; you don't have to take any responsibilities. That's why local governments love...
...revenues; by 1983 they supplied 14.2%. Meanwhile, federal revenue sharing, which contributed 13.7% of all local government income in 1973, dropped to 6.4% in 1983. That leads the Administration to claim that cities really will not miss the dwindling federal funds as much as their officials fear. Contends the Hoover Institution's Anderson: "If a politician can't squeeze 5% or 6% out of a budget without a major tax increase, he shouldn't be in office...
...conspiracy. CBS's Kill Me If You Can played down the crimes of Sex Offender Caryl Chessman and dwelt on his slow, gruesome execution in the gas chamber for the explicit purpose of arousing public sentiment against capital punishment. NBC's Kennedy depicted the late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a scheming bureaucratic thug, and the same network's King, also by Abby Mann, suggested that the black civil rights leader was virtually a puppet of white liberals. At minimum, docudramas inevitably distort history by being selective. Ike, which focused on a purported World War II romance between President...