Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quayle might be excused for feeling a bit frustrated by the focus on his looks. Well aware of his image as a lightweight, he carefully prepped for his first solo mission as a diplomat, a three-day, largely ceremonial trip to Venezuela and El Salvador. Still, the Vice President's handlers were nervous about a possible blunder. When the chartered plane that was to carry nearly 50 reporters along on the trip was abruptly canceled, there were suspicions that the idea was to limit press coverage...
...idea of presidential ignorance takes hold, the press and Congress will have a field day portraying Bush as a lightweight. Nonetheless, it could permit Bush to accommodate a "newly perceived reality" and then allow him to abandon his "no new taxes" promise. If so, the President will undoubtedly be glad to take a passing hit for having been misinformed. Bush survived Iran- contra, when reporters and adversaries were rooting around in his record to prove his complicity. He is even more likely to survive an Ignorance Sting, since most responsible Congressmen and economists have been hoping that he will somehow...
...such crash courses should be necessary spotlights Quayle's greatest difficulty. In his own words, delivered during an NBC television interview last week, he is still "a huge question mark" in the public's mind. That is putting it mildly: to many people the campaign image of an intellectual lightweight stubbornly lingers. In a Yankelovich Clancy Shulman poll taken for TIME before the Inauguration, half of those questioned had no particular impression of Quayle, and 30% viewed him unfavorably. Asked if Quayle is qualified to assume the presidency, 52% said no and only 30% said yes -- a poorer ratio than...
...TRAVELING WILBURYS: TRAVELING WILBURYS, VOLUME ONE (Wilbury). In transparent disguise, some rock heavyweights -- including Bob Dylan, George Harrison and the lamented Roy Orbison -- turn out the most infectious lightweight pop of the year...
Negotiations appeared to collapse last Monday, when Drexel's board of directors voted against a settlement. Joseph boasted that his staff had sifted through 1.5 million Drexel documents without finding any incriminating evidence. A former lightweight boxing champion at Harvard, Joseph insisted that the best defense against a heavy punch is "to come back at your opponent smiling...