Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infuriated the early-bird pundits, because no conclusions can yet be drawn. Over $22 million, much of it from out of state donors, has been spent on the race, whole forests have been felled to provide paper for reams of commentary, vitriolic epithets have been bandied, cannonades of mud have been slung, political skeletons have been exhumed and rattled-and yet as the race entered the final week, the polls showed first one man ahead, then the other. The race is headed for a photo-finish...
...creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign...
...been slimed." (Scene; battle in Europe, dead friend laying in mud.) "The guy was a slob. Ever see him eat? Starving children could fill their bellies on the food he left on his beard...
...Quentin, Frank Langella at first seems too sensuous to be playing the kind of man who sins only so he can suffer. By the second act, however, when Quentin is mud wrestling with Maggie's demons and making them his own, Langella has captured the character's soul; he is stooped, obsessive, spent. As Maggie, Dianne Wiest is an inspired piece of miscasting...
...under Lyndon B. Johnson. Or it can actually lose ground in Congress, as the Republicans did in 1956 under Dwight D. Eisenhower. In either case, races for Congress and Statehouses turn to a large extent on local issues and personalities, with plenty of help from money and mud. Last week, with all but the final round of primaries out of the way, candidates across the nation were heaving away furiously at the splatterboard of state and regional politics, creating patterns of flecks and daubs that will become the 1984 election scorecard...