Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...life: "This is an exciting choice." Quickly he looks down at the rostrum, hunting for the next sentence in the speech. He continues: "I want to build a future." Wait. The audience is clapping. Walter Mondale appears surprised. They seem to be giving an ovation to his previous remark. Perking up like a bird, he acknowledges the woman standing to his right, as if seeing her for the first time. He smiles, she smiles back. The applause grows loud. "Let me say that again," says the delighted Mondale. "This is an exciting choice!" The crowd goes wild. Mondale is clapping...
There may be some fun in this campaign too-at last. Until Mondale's triumphant sentence, the most memorable remark this tedium produced was "Where's the beef?" Now, while tolerating the inevitable Mr. Mom jokes applied to Ferraro's husband, we should also have the more subtle pleasure of watching President Reagan tiptoe through the social land mines. Will Ferraro be a "gal," a "girl," a "lady"? There should be wonderful national bull sessions too: heated, sophomoric, serious. What is this "compassion factor" anyway? As if Elizabeth I were a dove. Sense and nonsense will gallop...
...country passionately"). For social conservatives, a stress on traditional values ("I have a strong, loving family...our neighborhood and our faith are important parts of our lives"); for liberals, brief expressions of worry about what Reagan might do to Social Security and Medicare. For hawks and doves, a remark that her Queens constituents "support a strong, sensible defense" but "want nothing to do with reckless adventures in Latin America...
...woman facing the choice." That drew applause. But she went on to assert that "the President walks around calling himself a good Christian, but I don't for one minute believe it because the policies are so terribly unfair." It was the kind of harsh, overpersonal and unfair remark that could land her in deep trouble...
...Carter favored a mobile MX missile, she voted for it; when Reagan backed a silo-based MX, she voted against it. In the past year, as her political ambition widened, she has tried to plug the gaps in her knowledge, visiting Central America and the Middle East. In a remark that revealed both her naiveté and directness, she once exclaimed: "I didn't know what the West Bank was until I got there. It's so teeny...