Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afterward, few seemed to care or remember that Bentsen had been evasive in answering questions about his policy differences with Dukakis. Or that many of his responses too were recited verbatim from his stump speech. But never mind. Lloyd Bentsen looked and acted presidential -- indeed, to many he seemed more presidential than either George Bush or Michael Dukakis...
...asked Ailes, who was patrolling the stage like the lord of the manor, whether a certain gesture would be appropriate. "Hey, Roger . . . does . . . on, on this, you know, if I'm gonna, if I, if I decide on my gesture over there . . . is that all right . . . you don't mind?" Because they had been caught rehearsing it, Quayle's handlers decided to scrap the "tearing America down" line of attack. Instead, Quayle substituted his own line about America being "the envy of the world," a bromide he has been repeating on the stump...
...reporting and explain what made Rosenthal such a great newspaperman and what exactly Rosenthal's legacy is. The book is sloppily edited and riddled with factual errors and misspellings of the names of prominently by-lined Times reporters. At one point, Goulden refers to Rosenthal's semiweekly "On My Mind" column as "On My Head...
Quayle's first instinct to avoid answering a "hypothetical" question was right. He simply lacked the presence of mind and the knowledge to squelch that hoary journalistic dog. What did the reporters have in mind -- a President dying of a lingering illness, downed by a terrorist missile in Air Force One over the Mediterranean, resigning because of scandal? A Vice President's response would be different in each situation...
...shopping, the eastern "City of Angels" has already begun to eclipse Hong Kong and Singapore as the bargain basement of the East, its low prices beaten even lower in a minuet of smiles and shrugs and bartered murmurings of "Mai pen rai," or "Never mind." Temptations are ubiquitous. Stalls line the main streets of the city from morning to midnight, hawking $10 "Rolexes," 80 cents pirated cassettes, silk ties and suitcases and noodles; river markets assemble impromptu on the canals at dawn; and 40 shiny department stores sell everything from computerized horoscopes to tiger cubs. In Bangkok, moreover, high standards...