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...strong," said Pat Robertson. He said the vice president had run a "fabulous race," and added, "The mantle of Ronald Reagan has passed to George Bush." The former television evangelist said he would remain in the race, but talked in terms of expanding his support for a campaign rerun...
Because it was the first to use film instead of live transmission--then the TV industry did not have the technology to save live shows for high quality rebroadcast--I Love Lucy invented the possibility of the rerun...
Socially, Doug is a dependable loser. His technicolor fantasies fail to arouse young women, who think of him as a black-and-white rerun; the older ones are even more bathetic than he is. Worse, the mirror reminds Doug that the half-century mark looms: "50! 50 was General MacArthur . . . the school principal . . . 50 was Abby Meltzner, the delicatessen waiter his parents knew, who retired with the shakes. 'Put down the glass, Abby,' his boss had said. 'You have to go home.' 'I'll go home,' Abby replied. 'But I can't put down the glass...
...disengage from the harsher aspects of Reaganism. But G.O.P. primary voters tend to be conservative loyalists. They want a combative leader who reminds them of Reagan -- or so the candidates think. Reagan's longtime pollster, Richard Wirthlin, cautions that the muscular approach does not work automatically. "People always rerun the last successful election," Wirthlin explains. "Now candidates are trying to bring forward what was a very important trait for Reagan...
...sure, TV viewers cannot expect any rerun of North's theatrics. The balding, pipe-puffing Poindexter is the exact reverse of a dramatic figure. He speaks, when he must, in a soft monotone, and the sentences are brief and colorless. But it was Poindexter who received North's voluminous memos, and Poindexter who talked to Ronald Reagan every day. So it is Poindexter who can answer some central questions: How much did the President know about North's secret activities to aid the contras? Did Poindexter ever tell Reagan about the diversion of Iranian arms-sale profits to the Nicaraguan...