Word: man-in-the-street
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Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock in the streets of San Francisco? The surprise is there was no surprise. Not a San Franciscan eye batted while the makers of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home used a hidden camera to record man-in-the-street reaction to Kirk's glowing wine-red suit or Spock's white robe and ear- covering headband. Just didn't seem strange enough to stand out in the city by the bay. ''One lady even approached me after watching the shoot,'' reports Leonard Nimoy (Spock), ''and said, 'I thought you were a monk or a priest...
...What about the diplomacy of the war on terror? This could be the U.S. biggest Arab-world diplomatic success - ever. The man-in-the-street Muslim has one overriding beef with America - its longtime financial, military and diplomatic support of Israel. U.S. aid is why Israel is still armed well enough to take on all its Arab neighbors, why it rolls through the West Bank in tanks while Palestinians have to blow themselves up. Tell the Israelis to stand down or be cut off - and tell the Palestinians to do the same or get the Taliban treatment...
...told Sharon and Arafat last week - that "enough is enough." A new Gallup survey has 80 percent saying all-out war in the region is "somewhat likely" in the next few years, and they'll punish Bush more if it happens while he wrings his hands. The man-in-the-street American supported ground troops in Afghanistan, and if Bush explains to them how Mideast stability not only makes the world a better place but could dry up anti-American sentiment across the world, they...
...national man-in-the-street mood seems, lately, to have swung a little toward the cocky side - Bin Laden ain't so tough - and perhaps that's why Wall Street's predisposition this week has been to inch up instead of down while it waits for war. But any investor confident enough to buy into this week's tentative surge may want to remember that if Don Rumsfeld and Colin Powell and George W. Bush were as confident, we'd have seen some explosions in Afghanistan...
...campaign manager Robert Teeter; our job, says Bond, is to "remind" voters that it does. For the most part, the "worst of Clinton" will be left for the press to reiterate and for the surrogate salons (the radio call-in shows) to elaborate. Such restraint does not preclude "man-in-the-street spots," cautions Republican consultant Roger Stone. "Ford almost won in '76 with a series of TV ads that had 'regular people' saying, 'There's just something about Carter that bothers me' and 'He seems so wishy-washy' and 'His smile strikes me as insincere.' Same thing this year...