Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, there has been a remarkably accidental air about Reagan's career; it has always borne the quality of something he could take or leave. The image of the non-politician running for office, antilogical as it is, has had its practical advantages, but it is also authentic. Because Reagan knows who he is, he knows what he wants. After a halfhearted run at Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968, he returned to California for a second term as Governor. But in 1976, after an all-out and failed attempt to capture his party's nomination, he genuinely...
...before the so-called momentum against him was real; he was lucky to have Jimmy Carter as his opponent. On the night of Nov. 4, 1980, just 16 years after he had spoken his mind in behalf of a man too far right to be elected President, the amateur politician who will become 70 in February watched state after state turn in his direction...
...outpouring of grief, wonder and shared devastation that followed Lennon's death had the same breadth and intensity as the reaction to the killing of a world figure: some bold and popular politician, like John or Robert Kennedy, or a spiritual leader, like Martin Luther King Jr. But Lennon was a creature of poetic political metaphor, and his spiritual consciousness was directed inward, as a way of nurturing and widening his creative force. That was what made the impact, and the difference-the shock of his imagination, the penetrating and pervasive traces of his genius...
...mess to provoke a crisis. What France really needs is a new constitution that distributes power more evenly instead of making the President a virtual monarch." That point has been seriously argued by some pundits. A few more such remarks and Coluche could begin sounding like a real politician...
...assumption that more men watch in the first hour than in the second, each of the shows concentrates on hard news early on. Today's Washington correspondent, Richard Valeriani, usually interviews a politician in that hour, for example; Good Morning's Jack Anderson rakes the muck at 7:10; and Morning's business correspondent, Ray Brady, discusses the impact of high interest rates on the housing industry at 7:45. By 8, the workingmen and -women have presumably left-along with Morning-and NBC and ABC turn their attention to housewives...