Word: passionlessness
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Bush scored on a sharp question aimed at Dukakis' being considered "passionless, technocratic, the smartest clerk in the world." The Governor cited issues on which he said he cared deeply, including children who can't afford to go to college, people without medical insurance, civil rights and affirmative action. He conceded that "I may be a little calmer than some" about such matters because "I seek consensus." Bush adroitly declared that "I salute him for his passion," but insisted that it was misdirected at causes favored by "far-out liberals...
...then, none of the candidates live up to their TV models. Lloyd Bentsen, the tall, craggy Texan, could go for either tough (the late Jim Davis as Jock Ewing on Dallas) or folksy (Andy Griffith as Matlock). But his passionless style fails to register as either character. Dukakis has the mark of a man doomed to be portrayed in TV movies by Sam Waterston. And Bush is still overshadowed by the era's only politician actually to define and surpass his Hollywood model: Ronald Reagan...
...characters. Peter (Eric Oleson), a bland, upper middle-class man much like Daddy, reads and smokes a pipe on a park bench. Jerry (Daniel O'Keefe), an alienated, upset man, confronts Peter and tries to communicate with him and draw forth any sign of life from Jerry's passionless existence...
...technique, though, is an end in itself; the characters are largely cliches (ardent swains, shy maidens, puff-chested popinjays, reeling drunks), and of genuine emotion there is scarcely a sign. No self-respecting Tartar could be as passionless as this. For most of the program, the Moiseyev is as impersonal as the production line at a Ukrainian tractor factory...
Bobby Giaquinto's wife is "a soft, pale girl who bruised easily and feared penetration." As compensation, he brings a succession of sad, passionless women to his office, and there on the couch Bobby proceeds to make sad, passionless love. Between affairs, the magazine writer cranks out puff pieces about celebrities. He hates his life, his frustrating marriage, the hack work that gets him through...