Word: madison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pigment and chromosome, the 1980 Democratic Convention was nearly perfect. Television directors were ecstatic as they ordered their crews to zoom in on the U.S. profile spread across Madison Square Garden, from pink cheeks with a hint of baby fat to wrinkles and wattles, from deepest ebony to lily white, female and male...
...floor of the Democratic Convention, greeting state party leaders by their first names, bantering easily with old friends, picking up nuggets of political information along the way. Having covered countless primaries in three campaigns, Curtis Wilkie of the Boston Globe seemed to have sources in every cranny of Madison Square Garden. After an hour he slipped quietly off the floor to write an authoritative story about how President Carter's operatives were pressuring wavering delegates. It was old-style political reporting at its best...
After lunch he would mosey over to the Carter trailers inside Madison Square Garden. Comments from presidential aides were often cryptic, but Wilkie usually managed to get a sense of how Carter's men were faring against their foe from Massachusetts. By 9 p.m. or so, he would file for the Globe's first edition, then do some additional reporting and update his stories if necessary. After that it was off to a saloon on 33rd Street for some Jack Daniel's on the rocks...
Knockdown, drag-out affairs in Madison Square Garden are nothing new to one Carter supporter and unofficial Kentucky delegate. So while the convention droned on, former Heavyweight Champion Muhammad All was working the floor-signing autographs and pressing flesh. "I don't know nothing about politics," said the Greatest, with uncharacteristic modesty. He did, however, sport an ERA YES button, as well as a natty new mustache. Asked if he were sparring for a career in office, Ali replied: "The only thing I'd ever run for is President...
...left New York feeling very sad," says Actress Shelley Winters, who came to Madison Square Garden as a guest of the California delegation. "After the vote on whether to open the convention, I felt that it was a script I had read before. The whole thing seemed scenarioed and choreographed." The disappointed Kennedy fan said she voted for Carter in 1976, but may not do it again. "This may be the first time since I was 21 that I won't vote," she lamented. What about fellow Hollywood Veter an Ronald Reagan? Said Shelley: "I met him during...