Word: playboyism
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...determination, his commitment. The Playboy thing would have destroyed a lot of lesser candidates...
...think these are weaknesses, but we would have fared better if he had not been so accessible and so open. I regret it in that the Playboy thing hurt...
...appar-ently bothered California voters little. More troublesome was that Tunney answered every question put to him in voluble Senatorese, appeared overanxious to please, and shifted views on such major issues as natural gas deregulation and national health insurance. On TV, Tunney, despite his reputation as a swinging, divorced playboy, seemed uptight, while Hayakawa displayed a jaunty-and politically effective-cool...
...more pertinent question is whether the press-in its cynicism, disdain and plague-on-both-your-houses impartiality-helped to trivialize the campaign and thus contributed to the public's turned-off mood. Looking back on many of the '"issues" that dominated the headlines-ethnic purity, the Playboy interview, Clarence Kelley's valances, the Eastern Europe gaffe, Ford's finances-it's hard to escape the feeling that the press coverage has a lot to answer for. In the pack mentality of campaign journalism, once some characteristic in a candidate is spotlighted-Carter...
...also found itself outranked by the favors granted to guest journalists. Hoping to reach the sizable but apathetic young audience, Carter talked lengthily to Rolling Stone's self-centered Hunter S. Thompson (who neglected to quote Jimmy), to Norman Mailer (Carter said a four-letter word) and to Playboy's Robert Scheer, a self-styled "aggressive Berkeley radical." The delayed effects of these interviews increased Carter's wariness with the press...