Word: neill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to fall victim to wide- screen rhetoric and to the appeal of marquee names: if Reagan's second wife Nancy co-starred with Van Heflin and Glenn Ford, the actors and the films are duly recorded. Meanwhile, canny observers of Reagan's presidential performance, such as Tip O'Neill or Robert Dole, are wholly absent...
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Jonathan Miller's swift, funny rendering of an often lugubrious work was not so much a revival as a rediscovery. It proved that O'Neill's lyric family tragedy can work as gritty naturalism...
With President Reagan weakened by Iranscam and Congress in Democratic hands, Wright is expected to seize the initiative and launch an ambitious legislative agenda. Unlike O'Neill, who was content to let his committee chairmen dictate their schedules, Wright will probably use his post to articulate and develop the party's legislative direction. He told TIME that he intends to seek quick re-enactment of the Clean Water Bill, which the President vetoed last month, push through a highway-spending bill and draft comprehensive trade legislation...
Cartoonists will undoubtedly have fun with Wright's distinctively bushy eyebrows and sharp features, but not nearly as much as they had with Tip's nose and sheer bulk. The two leaders' personal styles are as different as their physical attributes. While the bluff O'Neill could growl out a rough response to Republican policy, Wright has a well-earned reputation as the House's foremost debater, and Reagan is already feeling the sting of his remarks. "Harry Truman said the buck stops here," he said in a speech last week, "but Ronald Reagan says put it on a credit...
...mantle of the great Texas Speakers: John Nance Garner and Sam Rayburn. His legislative gusto and keen political acumen may help him achieve that end. But while his reputation is likely to grow on Cap itol Hill, he may find it difficult to achieve the public stature of O'Neill, who in the Reagan years became the nation's most visible Democrat. With Democrats again in charge of the Senate and a presidential campaign just revving up, Wright will have many a rival for that role...