Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some experts suspect that the runaway dollar may be partly a political phenomenon. Foreigners watch ing this year's presidential campaign for clues about the future investment climate in the U.S. like what they see in the public opinion polls. Says Stephen Marris, a former economist for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: "In the last two or three weeks, the growing feeling is that it's going to be a landslide for Reagan. That basically means more people want to put money into America...
...took notice of a book about a journalist's buffoonish terror tactics during a newspaper strike. Read then, The Ink Truck might easily have been mistaken for a political statement about the freedom-loving workers' battle against the oppressive Establishment. Now, by the limelight of the Kennedy phenomenon, the book can be seen freshly for what it is: a bawdy Celtic romp reminiscent of J.P. Donleavy's 30-year-old tour de force, The Ginger...
Things don't work that way anymore. The Jackson example is only the latest in a new phenomenon-the divorce of the appearance and the reality of political power. The people doing the endorsing--and the endorsements themselves--increasingly have nothing to do with the substance of political campaigns...
...everyone is caught up in the buoyant mood, of course. Social Historian Christopher Lasch dismisses the phenomenon as gassy and unreal. "There seems to be a concerted effort in the media," Lasch says, "to present this view of a vast improvement in the public morale. But I doubt that it's much more than an emerging consensus in the media." Farmer Ron Nelson of Columbus, Kans., harbors a similar skepticism. "I have a wait-and-see attitude," he says. "It's easy to see flag waving during the Olympics, with all those medals and all. Patriotism was promoted...
...less a case of Reagan's having caused the mood than it is a matter of his reinforcing it." In describing Reagan's accomplishment, observers seem drawn to oceanic metaphors. "Ronald Reagan is riding a crest," suggests Duke University Vice Chancellor Joel Fleishman, "the crest of a phenomenon he did not wholly create, but which he exploits." Neoconservative Editor Norman Podhoretz agrees: "It's a wave that's been building, and Reagan has been appealing to it. It's a matter of the man meeting the moment...