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...Reagan, he sought to exploit Carter's absence from the League of Women Voters' debate by launching an ad blitz on Sunday and Monday. The setting was an empty podium. A woman's voice said: "Maybe he won't debate because he knows the real question is, 'Can we afford four more years of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Taking Those Spot Shots | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

While Brown stepped down from the podium, his face exhibiting no emotion, Allison took a microphone beside the stage. His voice fraught with barely restrained fury, he warned, "If you don't shut up right now, Secretary Brown will leave." The audience proved more receptive to the administration position than another gathering has 13 years before. As applause drowned out the hoarse, profane shouts of protest, Graham Allison made his way up to the K-School forum's second tier and personally escorted the rabble rousers out of the building...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

While Brown stepped down from the podium, his face exhibiting no emotion, Allison took a microphone beside the stage. His voice fraught with barely restrained fury, he warned, "If you don't shut up right now, Secretary Brown will leave." The audience proved more receptive to the administration position than another gathering has 13 years before. As applause drowned out the hoarse, profane shouts of protest, Graham Allison made his way up to the K-School forum's second tier and personally escorted the rabble rousers out of the building...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

While Brown stepped down from the podium, his face exhibiting no emotion, Allison took a microphone beside the stage. His voice fraught with barely restrained fury, he warned, "If you don't shut up right now, Secretary Brown will leave." The audience proved more receptive to the administration position than another gathering has 13 years before. As applause drowned out the hoarse, profane shouts of protest, Graham Allison made his way up to the K-School forum's second tier and personally escorted the rabble rousers out of the building...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...party itself has little to say about how much of its programming gets broadcast The Democrats video-taped the Republicans in Detroit, in a futile effort to learn what makes broadcasters so often turn their cameras away from the podium. Networks generally acknowledge a duty to broadcast at least the keynote, the nominations, the roll calls and the acceptance-but, while carrying the words, feel free to eye gabbling or dozing delegates. So, to get the anchorman's attention, politicians-including last week the Secretaries of State and Defense, as well as Rosalynn and Lillian Carter-found themselves climbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: TV's $30 Million Question | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

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