Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Andrew Osborne's portrayal of the near-perfect jerk Shelley Levine also turned my head. Levine's voice booms at the most tactless moments, and he waves his cigar mercilessly at anyone within striking distance. Osborne turns lines meant simply for character development into some of the best lines in the show, and he interrupts Williamson and even himself frequently and flawlessly: "There's more than one man for the...Put a...wait a second, put a proven man out...and you watch, now wait a second--and you watch your dollar volumes." His moods, ranging from quavering confidence...
Bowling Green 1, Vermont 0 The Vermont bus gets lost on the way to Ohio. The Cats wind up at a bowling alley. Ian Boyce and Kyle McDonough roll perfect games. Meanwhile, the Falcons win by forfeit...
...complaining, though, I actually want to do something about this disturbing situation. I feel that our country has moved too far from the original concept that anyone can become President. People like DiDonato should have as much chance as an Al Gore or a Mike Dukakis. There's a perfect solution--one that would give the common people a chance to influence the system which governs them, that would open up the political process, and that would finally give us a President who could lead this country without first requiring that he sell his soul to the PACs, pollsters...
...plenty of intelligent, forceful, conservative and deep-voiced people out there to add non-Bush qualities to the Republican ticket, but they don't fulfill the descriptions of the jellyfish needed to make Bush look good. After all Bush just spent eight years making Reagan look good. Practice makes perfect, and George Bush has made playing the jelly-fish into an art form...
...game of gravitas: who has it, who does not. Gorbachev, surely. Pope John Paul II. Jimmy Carter did not. Nor did Gerald Ford. Richard Nixon displayed a bizarre and complex gravitas that destroyed itself in sinister trivialities. Does Ronald Reagan have gravitas? In some ways, Reagan seems a perfect expression of the anti-gravitas America of the late '80s, a place that can seem weightless and evanescent, as forgetful as a television screen. Gravitas, a deep moral seriousness, is not necessarily the virtue for an electronic age. And yet Reagan possesses a gravitas of authenticity. In any case, lame ducks...