Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the Vice President who ambushed a television anchorman live on the evening news, then bragged about it for weeks. That same month, Mr. Tough Guy struck again. Bush was speaking at an Iowa high school when he fielded a hostile question from a girl holding a "Jack Kemp for President" brochure. Bush seized the pamphlet and tore it to shreds...
...night he lost a straw poll in Ames County, Iowa, Bush insisted that a lot of his supporters had been busy attending social events and "debutante balls." After the debutantes had helped him win 19 percent of the turnout, Bush easily outpaced Al Haig, Pierre duPont, and Jack Kemp...
...producers, who insist they searched as hard for evidence to exonerate Waldheim as for evidence to implicate him. Among those likely to testify, for example, is Bruce Ogilvie, a former R.A.F. pilot who claims Waldheim helped him escape Nazi execution. "Everyone knows that Waldheim has been accused," says Producer Jack Saltman, "but our program may be the only fair hearing he ever gets...
...homes and offices. Since last fall, Mitsubishi Electric of America has sold 64,000 of its new VisiTel units, a $400 device that looks like a TV with a 4 1/2-in. screen but also has a built- in camera lens and a cord that plugs into a telephone jack. Callers who pose in front of a VisiTel and push the button marked "send" can swap black- and- white "snapshots" of each other over the phone lines -- provided, of course, that the people they are talking to have the machine as well...
...Checkers speech effected not Nixon's disgrace but his political rescue; and we did have Nixon to kick around some more; and if one reviews the tapes, it is easy to conclude that he actually won the TV debate with Jack Kennedy; and he was a crook. So there. With Nixon, every circumstance eventually turns out to be funnier than he is. The nation he has trod these 75 years, the framework for his antics, is itself a dark and serious comedy, simultaneously rejecting and accepting everything in its midst; a riot, a scream. Sometimes (rarely) Nixon laughs aloud...