Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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March 20: Bush, in his first foreign policy initiative, convenes the first International Conference of Prison Furloughs. In order to be able to bargain with the Soviets from a position of strength, Bush grants furloughs to all American convicted murderers the day before the conference...
December 1: In leading the nation in the daily Pledge of Allegiance, Bush accidentally pledges allegiance to the Soviet Union. He is immediately arrested, and begs the American Civil Liberties Union to represent him in court. Unfortunately, Bush forgets that his first executive order disbanded the organization, and he is jailed without trial. Quayle assumes the Presidency...
...myth had emerged from the collective unconscious, taken the form of a slavering shadow and made a murderous foray against the ordinary order of things. People simply did not want to believe it. The police, the public, the press kept trying to convert resonant mystery into conventional tabloid sordidness. The Chamberlains were devout Seventh-Day Adventists, and, since most people know little about that faith, wild rumors that it encouraged ritual murder soon surfaced. Worse, Lindy refused to play the archetypal role that this drama called for. She would not grieve hysterically for the reporters. Throughout her ordeal...
Stern may be right, but the larger truth is that the candidates trivialized their campaigns in order to meet the demands of commercial TV news. The past had taught them that although a candidate might deliver a thoughtful speech, if he tripped and fell as he left the stage, that was all anyone would see on the news. TV covers only three things, says Bush's media guru, Roger Ailes, "visuals, attacks and mistakes." Broadcast news, agrees Michael Deaver, Ronald Reagan's former imagemaker, is "primarily concerned with entertainment values...
...moment. Last week Botha did just that, barring publication of the small (circ. 25,000), liberal, antiapartheid tabloid for four weeks. In a statement released in Pretoria, Botha accused the Mail of "causing a threat to the safety of the public or to the maintenance of public order...