Word: mcgoverns
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Hart's formative experience was the Viet Nam War; as George McGovern's 1972 campaign manager, Hart was a prominent opponent of America's military involvement in Southeast Asia. The real enemy, says Hart, is not Communism but "poverty, hunger and disease." In most internal disputes in foreign countries, he contends, the U.S. not only backs the wrong side-"repression and corruption and privilege"-but "inevitably the losing side." Hart charges that Mondale was slow to turn against the Viet Nam War and has yet to learn its lessons. A leader, said Hart, must know "not only...
...winner in this election year may be George McGovern. The former Senator from South Dakota has already won back a respected position as an elder statesman within his party. And if Walter Mondale emerges from a divisive race as the Democratic nominee, then people just may end up forgetting about that old '72 landslide...
...charge of the Hart campaign is Hart himself, and therein lies a weakness. As he proved in the 1972 McGovern campaign and in his stunning upset this year in New Hampshire, Hart is a shrewd political tactician. But it is exceedingly difficult to be a winning candidate and an artful campaign manager at the same time. As Hart correctly points out, the campaign has had to go from a "mom and pop operation to a national chain" overnight. Yet the business is still largely owner run: when Hart delegates, he often finds himself trying to clean up the mistakes...
...there, and in a matter of weeks Hopper (Sean Penn) and Nicky (Nicolas Cage) will report for enlistment. But that leaves time enough for them to punctuate their broody adolescent walks with leaps onto fast-moving freight trains, for Hopper to fall in love with Caddie (Elizabeth McGovern) and for Nicky to get his girl friend Sally (Suzanne Adkinson) "in trouble." These characters, and their problems, are the basic banalities of books and movies that insist on taking adolescence as seriously as adolescents do. Director Benjamin has found some picturesque locations, so his picture looks nice; the period details...
...says, "though they seem to be issues with reporters." Has he tried to remake himself after a rigid and unhappy childhood? "What a lot of baloney!" he exclaimed in an interview with TIME last week. "Everybody's going to be psychoanalyzed. Jimmy Carter was, Richard Nixon was, George McGovern was. It's just part of the deal. But my childhood was as happy as one can be in not plush economic circumstances." He changed his signature, he explained, "to make it easier to read." (To make his Senate letterhead signature legible, Hart dropped his middle name and switched...