Word: nastiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WARREN ZEVON: TRANSVERSE CITY (Virgin). The nastiest and least predictable of the California singer-songwriters opens hard with a dour, futuristic suite of three tunes inspired by cyberpunk sci-fi, then draws his usual fine satiric bead on a range of subjects from perestroika to malling...
...second book, The Winning of the White House 1988. Written by five TIME staffers who covered the campaign, edited by special projects editor Donald Morrison and introduced by historian Garry Wills, this concise inside story is the first book-length chronicle to reach the bookstores after the longest and nastiest presidential campaign in memory. Read it for the definitive account of how George Bush...
...Five P' s of Poison Ivy Politics -- the public, the process, the packagers, the polls and the press -- bear collective responsibility for the nastiest campaign in memory. -- Congressman Lee Hamilton suggests requiring presidential nominees to address a single major issue each week. -- With her head held high, Imelda Marcos is arraigned...
...final day of America's longest, costliest and--some say--nastiest presidential campaign left little room for subtlety...
...Bush was a one-man cleanup squad for the Republicans, the nicest man to send into the nastiest situations, and the CIA, after the Church committee's investigation, was as battered and demoralized an area as the R.N.C. had recently been. Bush, kept in the dark in earlier jobs, was sent to be the restorer of light and order at the CIA, which he largely became. Heavy firings under James Schlesinger and candid revelations to Congress under William Colby had made the agency defensive, and Bush has always been a good restorer of team morale. He spoke more often...