Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ruling Class tells the story of a Jack, a British aristocrat who also happens to think he's the god of love. When Jack's father, the 13th Earl of Gurney, dies by hanging himself accidentally--don't ask--Jack returns from the mental hospital to inherit his peerage. The other members of the Gurney family move to have Jack committed so that they can oversee the estate. While they plot for the majority of the first act, Jack preaches about love...
...indelible lesson from his experience as Governor: an almost pathological fear of binding commitments. He was defeated for re-election in 1978 in part because he was forced to renounce a campaign pledge not to raise taxes. As a consequence, Dukakis has become as parsimonious with promises as Jack Benny was with dimes...
...World War II heats up, the Larranetas of San Diego are already aboil. Papa (Francisco Rabal) is a Basque-born tyrant. Josie, his pretty daughter (Melissa Leo), is eloping with G.I. Jack (Hutton). Martin, the unloved son (Hurt), is so bent on winning the late approval of his Shane-sadist of a father that he follows Jack to Italy, and back home, with murder in mind...
...Jack Corrigan, 31, who has worked for Dukakis seven years, is a talented, tough-minded operator who set up the candidate's national organization. Nicholas Mitropoulos, 36, Dukakis' constant shadow on the campaign trail, is an earthy, good-natured pol. A former associate director of Harvard's Institute of Politics, Mitropoulos became the Governor's director of personnel. As head of Dukakis' department of revenue, Ira Jackson, 39, a former associate dean of Harvard's John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government, was largely responsible for Dukakis' highly touted tax-collection efforts. If Jackson could be lured away from...
CORRESPONDENTS: John F. Stacks (Chief); B. William Mader, Jack E. White (Deputies) Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey National Political Correspondent: Laurence I. Barrett...