Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Costigan). When he drives them home after work, they chipperly take turns putting out for him. A minimum of romantic spirit and a maximum of haste mark these encounters. Monosyllabically written by Andrea Dunbar, directed with documentary flatness by Alan Clarke, this movie achieves a cinematic rarity: a perfect lack of grace. And thus a perfect match of style and subject. If we believed these figures were capable of rising above themselves and their drab surroundings, we would probably be appalled by their rutting ways. As it is, we see that the consummation toward which they rudely slouch...
Talk is cheap, which may be the simplest explanation for this unexpected glut of gab. Cable television and inexpensive satellite hookups provide the perfect forum for sparring candidates to receive free media exposure. The possibility of wide-open races also contributes to the outbreak of political logorrhea. When a candidate is running behind "Undecided" in the polls, a debate gaffe holds little risk. Small wonder that the strongest resistance to an all-talk campaign comes from the handlers of Bush, the candidate with the most to lose. Campaign Manager Lee Atwater complains, "The thing is just getting out of hand...
...rewarded with a standing ovation, and Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis provoked the most curiosity. But it was Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas who got off the most telling line. Referring to the never ending quest of Southern Democrats to find the ideal moderate candidate, Dole observed, "The perfect candidate never runs. And when he does, there's always somebody to take issue with you if you step in the arena...
...that very moment, the perfect candidate for many Southern Democrats was traveling with his wife and 20-year-old daughter in Europe. In mid-August, Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia left Washington with his brown leather briefcase filled with memos and briefing papers discussing a putative presidential candidacy. Thoughtful and highly respected in the Senate for his mastery of defense issues, Nunn had announced in February that he would make no move to organize a campaign for six months, until after the summer congressional recess and the conclusion of his service on the Iran-contra panel. "Nunn believed that...
...White House against his qualms about disrupting his family and shortchanging his Senate duties. He will not have long to signal his intentions: beyond the end of September, a late-from- the-gate candidacy could be almost impossible. Now Nunn must decide whether he wants to remain as the perfect non-candidate or become another presidential contender who will inevitably lose some of his luster in the rough-and-tumble of a difficult campaign...