Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stockdale's only previous involvement in presidential politics was running Ronald Reagan's California campaign in 1980, a service that merited the lifelong Republican an honorary post in the Administration overseeing White House fellowships. In the current race, he is likely to play the "outside" man, stumping in the hinterlands while Perot concentrates on television appearances. But Stockdale, who is intensely private and introspective, may not prove adept at the traditional hand-pumping and baby-kissing role...
...Says Peggy Charren, founder of Action for Children's Television, who lobbied for the law: "The response of the broadcast industry to its new mandate to serve children is horrifying once you stop laughing. If their lawyers weren't drunk, they must be sick." Not necessarily. Regulators in the Reagan Administration once tried to cut funds for school lunch programs by classifying catsup as a vegetable...
...damn polls, Dick, economy thing -- Reagan Democrats, Clinton Republicans, every which way. Get the jobs out to the ZIP codes, Jim says, or it's January in Kennebunkport, too cold for golf...
...WHEN HE HELPED RONALD REAGAN SNATCH the White House from Jimmy Carter, Jim Baker summed up his view of presidential politics in two words -- "reasonable doubt." As an attorney -- and he was one of the best when he practiced law for a living -- Baker has always been charmed by courtroom analogies. "At the presidential level," he explained, "the stakes are so high, and are seen as so high by the voters, that the trick is to cause people to view your opponent as somehow 'guilty,' as being unfit for the top. Especially if you're the incumbent, if you create...
...queer "spermlet" swimming upstream in search of an egg to fertilizer. Then, having in a sense created himself, he passed through an infancy surrounded by "mini dykes and fags" to puberty, when he "tried to use Noxzema to jerk off," to AIDS and the election of Ronald Reagan. By this time, he was spitting out his words in an angry spray of saliva that drifted over the first few rows of the audience...