Word: mates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter, will be Ferraro's senior political counselor. Along with Mondale's high command, Ferraro's staff will decide how she can campaign most effectively and keep the popular good will from fading. Ferraro also must get her positions in line with those of her running mate; already she has deferred to Mondale's opposition to tuition tax credits for parents of private-school students. She is from Mondale briefing books to prepare for the detailed policy questions that await her, and could rattle her. Congresswoman Ferraro," says Sasso, sounding somewhere between hopeful and confident...
...history, all the tears-what were they leading toward? In the most emotional moments, every delegate on the floor of the Moscone Center knew that Presidential Nominee Walter Mondale, no matter how galvanizing his choice of ticket mate, was fighting against heavy odds. In the modern era, when presidential nominations are decided in primaries and caucuses and Vice Presidents are chosen by their running mates, a convention has functions other than picking a ticket. It serves as a kind of combined pep rally to lift the spirits of a party's electoral foot soldiers and a huge free...
...prepared for that grind, Ferraro deferred in most matters to the vastly superior campaign expertise of the high-powered Mondale staff. When the week began, she was encamped in a 35th-floor Meridien Hotel suite, down the hall from her running mate, and her principal day-to-day operatives were mostly Mondale transfers. "I have these wonderful men who push me in and out of places," she said, moments after one of her new aides had guided her into a 40-minute meeting with TIME editors and correspondents. The ferocity of a vice-presidential candidate's schedule, she quickly...
...gathered for her first open-to-the-public appearance: Ferraro and Mondale, speaking from the deeply sunken Halladie Plaza, could be seen only by people standing at the front of the crowd above. Nevertheless, the cheers were louder and longer during her short address than during her running mate...
Sometimes menacing, often bleakly comic, always alarmingly precognitive, the visions of Writer Gerard Reve (Jeroen Krabbé) have their cinematic possibilities. The trouble is his movie is mostly banal, the stuff of arrested adolescence. It contains obsessively recurring images: woman as spider, devouring her mate once she has lured him to sexual consummation; woman as elusive Madonna, offering salvation to wayward boys if only they can catch her attention; campy sacrilege committed on Catholic iconography gloomy reflections on the artist's unhappy lot in a staid bourgeois society, with particular reference to Holland, where the audience is uneconomically small...