Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Group Publishers: S. Christopher Meigher III, Robert L. Miller...
...buck. Without spending a dollar on advertising (though millions will be lavished on print and TV ads), without cozying up to a single critic (though rave reviews are nice), he can secure a client's name in people's minds. "Publicity isn't a buckshot medium," says Robert Friedman, a senior vice president at Warner Bros. "It's very carefully directed. Putting the best face on a picture is a good way of getting people into the seats for that first weekend...
Meanwhile, media adviser Roger Ailes arrived with a tough anti-Dole ad titled "Senator Straddle." It showed a grim-faced Dole waffling on various issues, notably taxes. Campaign manager Lee Atwater was for it, but two other advisers, Nick Brady and Robert Mosbacher, demurred, noting that it violated Reagan's "eleventh commandment" -- Thou shalt speak no evil of a fellow Republican. At first, Bush sided with them...
...state is small enough for voters to get to know, and apparently love, the representatives they send to Washington. In this century, Vermont has rejected only one member of its congressional delegation who sought re-election. Thus when moderate Republican Senator Robert Stafford decided to retire after 18 years, the state's lone Congressman, seven-term Republican James Jeffords, 54, immediately was seen as his heir apparent. Jeffords had little difficulty defeating Democrat William Gray, a Burlington lawyer and former U.S. Attorney seeking his first elective office...
That shift in control meant, among other things, that Joseph Biden, not Strom Thurmond, became chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. So when Robert Bork was nominated for the Supreme Court, the judge whose qualifications seemed indisputable found himself facing a panel that would respond to the special interests. Bork, by sticking to his record, was in the position of denying rights of privacy to gays and to those using contraception, of opposing civil rights and women's rights as well as abortion. Yet a majority of Americans agreed with the special interests on the rights of privacy...