Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brawling, take-me-on-if-you-dare performance at a Des Moines debate, Bush appeared to have whipped his wimp image. But the Vice President may need all the moxie he can muster, since he suddenly found himself bushwhacked over an issue he hoped had been forgotten: his role in the Iran-contra scandal. The fusillade of what-did-he-really-know charges came mainly from the press, but it was Alexander Haig who put them in sharp political focus when he asked during the debate, "If you can't answer your friends, what in heaven's name is going...
...Kansas Senator's stump speech is an artful example of invective by indirection. Dole frequently boasts, "I can work with the Congress." (In contrast to guess who?) "I helped save the Social Security system in 1983." (Where was Bush?) "I played a leading role in cutting taxes in 1981." (Bush was on the sidelines.) "I've got a record, not a resume." (Point made...
...more potent, though, is the controversy over Bush's Iran-contra role. It provides a rare window on how the Vice President performs when he is close to the Oval Office. Before the debate, a few Bush strategists were arguing with little success that the Vice President should offer a public apology. The , failure of any Republican to press the issue during the Friday night debate renewed hopes that he might ride out the storm. But if Bush is the nominee, it is an issue the Democrats are sure to revive in the fall...
...principal lyricist, Lloyd Webber chose Charles Hart, 26, a novice who had only one previous, unperformed musical to his credit; in counterbalance, the composer tapped the veteran director Hal Prince, 59, who * had contributed so much to the success of Evita. Lloyd Webber composed the role of Christine with his wife Sarah Brightman's crystalline voice and fragile Pre-Raphaelite looks in mind. The trick was casting the Opera Ghost. His choice was British Actor Michael Crawford, 45, whom he had heard sing in the 1979 London show Flowers for Algernon and who had appeared in such films...
...began by comparing Brodsky's claims to "the most notorious American example of professional deformation in the realm of politics--Charles Wilson's "What's good for the country is good for General Motors and vice versa." He argues that like Wilson, "Brodsky's statement attributes a wildly disproportionate role to his own field of endeavor...