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...some ways, New York Governor Mario Cuomo is like Bumpers. Both are liberal, vaguely populist lawyers, but neither is doctrinaire. Both first achieved elective office in their 40s. Each has the enviable knack of persuading the press of his soulfulness and decency. Cuomo, 52, could add some passion and streetwise piquancy to a Mondale ticket. Like Ferraro, he is an Italian American from the New York City borough of Queens. Ideologically, he is close to Mondale, but some party strategists, arguing in favor of Cuomo, think Mondale should not worry about orthodox ticket balancing. If the Democrats...
...Mario Cuomo offer up 400 exhaustive and, at times, exhausting pages chronicling his ascension to the governorship of New York State? Political books are rarely written merely to enrich the intellectual content of bourgeois existence. Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) did not churn out A New Democracy because he fancied himself a renaissance man, nor did Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) pen a how-to nuke freeze guide because he could only express his heartfelt convictions in mass market soft-cover...
...Cuomo was too lazy to present a cogent narrative. He relies instead on notes written at the dining room table at 5:30 a.m. or after a vigorous 15-hour day of campaigning. Were Cuomo a more fluid and captivating writer, the diary form would have been acceptable, but Mario is no Hunter S. Thompson, and his prose is more akin to a connect-the-dots game than a straight narrative line. Though the account is quite lively when describing Cuomo's and Koch's battle down to the wire for the Democratic nomination, the diary form is woefully inadequate...
...exploit that gender gap fully, some Democrats are flirting with an idea that has as much risk as logic: nominating a woman to run for Vice President. House Speaker Tip O'Neill is behind it. So are Democratic Governors Mario Cuomo of New York and Richard Celeste of Ohio. The National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus are scrambling to line up organized support for a woman Vice President. In recent weeks, Walter Mondale and Gary Hart have been asked at every stop whether they would run with a woman; Jesse Jackson already has promised...
...seemed to make perfect sense to Gloria Steinem and the 900 or so people gathered at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel last week for the Ms. magazine editor's semicentennial birthday party. The feminist fete featured speeches and songs by such liberati as Mario Thomas, Bella Abzug, Bette Midler, Sally Ride and Shirley MacLaine, who wished the birthday girl "success and happiness in all your future lives." Ride, for her part, recalled that her mother, after watching Sally rocket away on television last June, had said, "God bless Gloria Steinem." Steinem, meanwhile, characteristically interpreted her friends...