Word: publicize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this world of the endless campaign, pretty soon no candidate anywhere will ever again risk uttering an impromptu thought in public. For a hefty fee, U.S. advisers will market-test every word and gesture to achieve the proper level of dynamic blandness. And since media consultants tend to recycle endlessly any technique that works, it is easy to envision future political spots that begin, "It's morning again in Poland." But equally disturbing is the way that during the 1980s, the political handlers have wrung the last droplets of spontaneity out of U.S. politics, as passion and ideology have become...
...ever made. I thought I could help him reform." Frank said he has had a faithful male relationship since coming out of the closet, and he will seek re-election in 1990. He expects voters to judge him on his record as a hardworking, liberal Congressman, and explains, "The public didn't suffer. I suffered...
...Greensboro, N.C., she faced a problem: a form that asked her to specify her race. Instead of filling in the blank, she left the question unanswered. School officials politely suggested that she make a choice, since the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights requires all public school systems to submit racial data on their students. Mahin, who had attended private schools since moving to Greensboro in 1985, just as politely declined. She and her parents, both born in the U.S., follow the Bahai religious faith. Explained her mother Brenda Mahin: "Our family believes very strongly...
...boat starts to move. That's encouraging. After all the band's public bickering and rheumatic concertizing, after all this time and all these damn years, the Rolling Stones can still rock the boat. They are back all right...
TIME art director Rudy Hoglund, who coordinated the shoot, caught a glimpse of the personal Stones. "Their public image comes across as rather harsh," Hoglund says. "But I found them to be charming, regular people. Keith Richards had a friendly Labrador dog that followed him everywhere. He seemed like a very gentle kind...