Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they do to protect Carter's image, the authors inevitably slip into the bottom line on the president. They label the chapter on his childhood "Just an ordinary little boy," and scattered throughout the remainder of the book are reminders of Carter's aggressive normalcy. "Carter fits in the American grain of thousands of upwardly mobile men and women in business and sales." Or, as Diamond concludes, "Jimmy Carter is like thousands of other middle-aged men of middling stature in authority in our society. He is the man next door--if you live in the nicest neighborhood...
Like his campaign, Brown's stance on the issues strikes many as confusing. Leave aside the commitment to Zen and the "Linda Ronstadt number." Brown takes positions many label unusual. He advocates placing private citizens on the board of directors of the major oil companies and laying out billions for a new American space program. Although he opposes development of the MX missile, nobody can quite find a place for Brown on the foreign policy scale. For the record, he pictures himself a social liberal and fiscal conservative; he loudly supports a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget and favors...
...dismissed; many of his colleagues consider him the single most effective lawmaker on Capitol Hill. But with advantages of pointing to experience come the disadvantages of not being able to slide too far on the issues. In New Hampshire, Dudley says, she doubts whether the "gun control votes"--her label--would fall on Kennedy's side in any case. Other organizers worry more and, like nervous players glancing the clock, wait for tomorrow night's returns and hope for the best...
...part, Carter has slipped from the roost only once, descending into the political pit to label Kennedy's comments on Iran "damaging to the country." But the Rose Garden strategy, as Carter's miraculous two-month turn about shows, has never worked better. At the mere mention of a word--"hostages"--the network cameras roll, and Carter is there, in your living room, talking tough, talking in prime time, talking about the thing that people are interested in. The rally-round-the-flag quotient, Kennedy Massachusetts organizers say, has fallen from it Iowa high, but no one doubts that...
...sake, and you don't have to be high to get it. They'll take you on a trip anyway." Travelers who may not want to sign on for this particular voyage may find themselves more in agreement with a vice president at a rival record label who speculated, not without wistfulness, that the Pinkies "make perfect music for the age of the computer game...