Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ways, a relic of an earlier TV era. (One element that was lost: book authors, who had often been slotted in the final 15 minutes but who disappeared from the show almost entirely.) One by one, competing talk-show hosts -- Merv Griffin, Joey Bishop, Cavett, Alan Thicke, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak -- fell away. Even Arsenio Hall, whose show has captured a new and younger audience, has failed to dislodge Carson from atop the late-night ratings mountain...
...Pat Buchanan campaign began with a phone call last December, when the commentator discussed the possibility of a run with his sister Angela. She urged him on, and even volunteered to leave home and hit the road to help coordinate the effort against George Bush. In the three months since then, Angela ("Bay") Buchanan has become the candidate's most important adviser...
...seat-of-the-pants strategy that complements her brother's smooth stump manner and plays to his strengths. She helped create the effective antitax TV spot that parodied Bush's "read my lips" pledge on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. And it was Bay who advised Pat to pillory the President for < delaying the $500 middle-class tax cut he had promised in the State of the Union address...
...nearly constant presence at her brother's side represents something of a homecoming for Bay. In 1982 she abandoned Roman Catholicism and married into the Mormon faith. On her father's orders, many family members -- including Pat -- did not attend the ceremony, and the marriage ended in divorce. Today the Pat-Bay relationship is close again, strengthened by their common mission: restoring the party to what they consider to be Reaganite conservatism...
Leno is the most political of the late-night hosts. When he says, "Pat Buchanan is the thinking man's David Duke," he says it to be funny, yes, but he means it. Although he rejects the notion that his humor is political -- "Political implies ideological, and my comedy is not ideological" -- Leno is a liberal in two senses: with a small l in that his sensibility is humane and broad-minded (last month he went to Chicago and Detroit at his own expense to do free shows for the unemployed and the homeless); with a capital L in that...