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This contradiction is a familiar problem to political analysts. Says Phillips: "People will support the cuts in general as long as they affect someone else's programs and not theirs." To Democratic Pollster Paul Maslin "it's a classic case of people wanting their cake and eating...
Democratic Pollster Maslin also sees "a real division between people's feelings about policy, national leadership and Ronald Reagan. Democrats cannot make the mistake of insisting that Reagan's policies are always rejected, and therefore that no part of his program should be continued." In 1988, he thinks, voters will be looking for the "strength of leadership" that Reagan demonstrated, without wanting a "rubber stamp for everything he did." As the TIME survey demonstrates, the November races might be considered simply a prelude to the real battle for the soul of the nation two years from...
...underwent a political facelift. Slickly produced television spots portrayed her as uncharacteristically mellow and calm, and solely responsible for righting the city's careening fiscal course-an arguable claim. Meanwhile, the Washington campaign bided its time. When a Jan. 8 poll, conducted by Washington's consultant Paul Maslin, showed Daley's support stagnating, Washington produced a series of simple, well-crafted media spots that were aired during the last weeks of the race. Many were targeted at the mayor, who was ridiculed as a poor administrator and a captive of the machine. Equally valuable were locally televised...
...from this woman's decade?Anne Tyler and Gail Godwin, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joyce Eliason, Ann Beattie and Elizabeth Hardwick and, yes, Joan Didion?have created a consciousness that is both more aware and a little restless, a little reckless, even, about mistaking gains for guarantees. Critic Janet Maslin summed up the plot of a movie this way: "[The heroine] confronts her new situation. She redefines her relationship with her children...
...Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. Rock musicians are stoned with praise and putdowns in this new anthology (Random House; $19.95). Elton John is called "a pudgy robot" who is "an object of pubescent sexual fantasy." Singer-Songwriter Joni Mitchell, writes Contributor Janet Maslin, did not recognize her "giddy romanticism" until she had recorded six albums. As for Janis Joplin, who died in 1970 of a drug overdose, Writer Ellen Willis notes that her revolt against conventional femininity "dovetailed with a stereotype-the ballsy, one-of-the-guys chick who is a needy, vulnerable cream puff underneath." Besides such...