Word: playboyism
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Though his crowds were generally large and friendly, they displayed little of the frenzied excitement that certifies they will turn out at the polls. The main lingering residue of the ill-advised Playboy interview was ridicule, perpetuated in a bumper-sticker revision of Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign theme: IN HIS HEART, HE KNOWS YOUR WIFE. Volunteers, with no overriding issue to turn them on and a candidate who frequently turns them off, were hard to come by everywhere. There is some confusion between the relatively conservative Carter who speaks of love, healing and balanced budgets and the angry...
MIDWEST. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley resented the Carterites' standoffishness. Only last week Daley agreed "to redouble our efforts." He described Carter as a "great fella in spring training, but now that the league has started, he's in a slump." Pressed for his views on the Playboy interview, Daley dodged, boasting of a fish he had caught. What then did the fish think? Cracked Daley: "If he hadn't opened his mouth, he wouldn't have gotten caught...
Like other journalists traveling aboard Peanut One, NBC Correspondent Judy Woodruff had known for months about Jimmy Carter's interview with Playboy. But until Interviewer Robert Scheer spelled out details for her two weeks ago, she had no idea of its contents. As soon as she spotted Carter's somewhat vivid language, she got word to Today show Host Tom Brokaw, who broke the story Monday morning...
...which did not make up its mind to allow Anchor Man Harry Reasoner to quote Carter in full until 15 minutes before that network's Evening News went on the air. At CBS, Walter Cronkite grandpaternally refrained, saying only that Carter used "words mild for Playboy but perhaps a little racy for Sunday school...
...profane language" on the air, but the agency has not prosecuted broadcasters for using Carter's particular colloquialisms. At stations throughout the U.S., news directors seemed less daunted by the FCC than by local canons. In liberated Los Angeles, for example, all television stations broadcast Carter's Playboy quotes verbatim. But in more decorous Atlanta, hardly any local stations violated the "screw" taboo...