Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final weeks of the campaign, King cooled his social-issue rhetoric, promised jobs and prosperity, defended his record as Massport director, and with characteristic disregard for administrative reality, promised state workers substantial pay raises while pledging to reduce state spending enough to slash local property taxes by $500 million...
...senatorial campaign noticeably lacked any mudslinging tactics, but the effects remain to be seen, State Rep. Barney Frank said yesterday. "This election has made a lot of blacks very angry," Frank said, adding that there are many local white politicians who will find themselves without the black vote next time around...
During the evening, a panel of four professional politicos treated the crowd to commentary and analysis. Paul Nace, former chief secretary to Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., moderated the panel's discussion of both local and national elections...
Pomeroy hasn't come home for his family--not for his stepmother about to marry the low-rent local politician Curtis Peavey, whose goons keep rearranging his caps--but to join his sweetheart Catherine, a woman he may or may not be married to. Stay away, she warns: "You called me deep-dish Southern plastic in a national publication!" She is a lesbian now, she maintains, having taken up with the bisexual Marcelline. Chet considers this only vaguely through a menthol cocaine haze. Then he nails his hand to her door...
Other forms of journalism have proved ineffectual substitutes for newspapers. Local television stations lengthen their news broadcasts without improving them. Critics from the papers, reading their reviews on the air, soon found themselves simplifying their judgments-more fervently denouncing or plugging a book-having discovered television's inpatience with verbal nuances. Reporters and columnists working for the strike-born papers seem less impressive than usual. Can it be that the role of editors in making news judgments is more crucial than writers like to admit? Or perhaps, on interim papers, reporters are like football players in a postseason Hula...