Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really amazed at how many kids, who I truly believe want to learn, are stifled by the fact that there's a grade that has to come up at the end," she adds. "I don't want to paint a rosy picture of myself, though," she laughs. "I'm an overachiever, and if I got a C in college I would have had a heart attack. B's were hard to swallow, and I didn't get many. But the teachers who didn't give me an A, and who talked with me, I learned from...
...Carter campaign will also paint the Californian as a right-winger out of phase with the more moderate views of most Americans. (Said Reagan last weekend: "I do not think the image of me as Ebenezer Scrooge will sell.") Carter's aides admit Reagan is what they call a "likable ideologue," but they are convinced that he is vulnerable. Says Caddell: "The fact that he is liked does not take away from the fact that people perceive him as far more of an ideologue than most politicians...
...candidate for President stood last week in a rubble-strewn lot in one of New York City's worst ghettos. Behind him, on the wall of a rundown tenement, was a one-word message of despair in orange paint: DECAY. On another nearby building was a scrawled reminder of what the neighborhood had received from white politicians in the past: BROKEN PROMISES. The candidate read a brief statement to reporters. Said he: "I'm impressed with the spirit of hope and determination by the people to save what they have." Hecklers in a crowd of 70 young black...
Even in this lamentable movie sea son, it is hard to think of a less memorable movie than this one. Its social commentary is without energy or originality-strictly Paint-by-Numbers. That may be Paul Mazursky's message: the '70s were a decade singularly without singularity. But that is not the most promising premise for a movie. Maybe he gave up on the period too easily...
...that the party is no longer on selfdestruct. A few hurried journalistic reassessments of Reagan came out of Detroit. Typical was a column from Meg Greenfield, the Washington Post's editorial-page editor. Having finally seen Reagan up close, Greenfield had some advice for Carter: forget trying to paint Reagan as a nuke-waving, overaged, stupid and dangerous man to an American public that had seen him aw-shucksing his way coolly out of difficult spots. Greenfield still has big doubts about Reagan, but added: "Wrong is different from Dumb. And so is Unfamiliar or Inexperienced...