Word: jovialness
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...kind of busy tonight,'" Hall said with a laugh. Hall added that as a local candidate, he is forced to be his own campaign manager, press secretary, finance chairman and advance man. "As a Republican officeholder in Democratic Massachusetts, I'm something of a star," he said. The jovial exMarine believes the Massachusetts GOP "thinks I'm a machine. Whenever they want to run any candidates in my district, they say, 'Go see Hall. He controls northern Worcester Country.' Hell, they don't know that all I've got is eight high school kids handing out leaflets...
Partly because money has become an issue, the race is probably the least costly Senate contest in the country. Each candidate plans to spend only about $350,000. Thus the outcome may turn largely on the candidates' campaign styles. Rudman is jovial and smooth, a "pussycat," as one campaign follower says. By contrast, Durkin is blunt and brusque; even Wife Pat concedes that "John isn't the smoothest character in town." But this is no handicap in New Hampshire, where voters prefer their politicians to be flinty...
...network booths. So much for those who think the podium is where the convention takes place. Arriving at Walter Cronkite's aerie, Vice President Walter Mondale was welcomed on the air and asked to wait a moment while CBS-following its higher priorities-rolled some commercials. After a jovial exchange of banalities, the visitor usually has a self-serving point to make. This can be risky, as Gerald Ford learned in Detroit, where his appearance irritated a watching Reagan. But it was Cronkite, not Ford, who in the words of the New Republic's John Osborne, had "gratuitously...
Cephus Miles, a black man (Charles Brown), loves his farm. The plowing, the planting, the harvesting form the serene inner rhythm of his life. Through good times and bad, Cephus' jovial imperturbability, his native resilience and his purity of spirit form the core of this warm drama. Originally presented by the Negro Ensemble Company at St. Mark's Play house in Greenwich Village and currently housed at Broadway's Cort Theater, Home explores the texture of the black experience from the inside looking out with some rue but no hostility...
...initial moves was to reforge his old links with Joshua Nkomo, 62, his former co-leader in the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance. Running on a separate platform, the bulky, jovial Nkomo had won only 20 seats, mostly in his Matabele tribal stronghold. He accepted Mugabe's invitation to join forces with him in a "national front" coalition. Nkomo was reportedly offered Zimbabwe's figurehead presidency, but he may hold out for a Cabinet post...