Word: savioring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elvis' spirit lives on. Sure, he's dead, more or less, and that might prevent him from landing a Cabinet post. But for the Democrats, he is the resurrection and the life, the savior for a party that has lost symbolic turf for a decade and a half. And for the nation, his renaissance marks the beginning...
...George Bush's extremely reluctant savior, White House chief of staff JAMES A. BAKER III has made himself all but invisible since coming back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In fact, he's keeping such a low profile that West Wing staffers post notices of rare "J.A.B. III" sightings. Says a top Bush campaign official: "We're beginning to think the next time we see him, it will be on the side of a milk carton...
...supposedly down-to-earth, homespun character, Perot is extremely conscious of his image and prone to inflate it. Separating the facts from the exaggerations and inventions is no easy task. But it needs to be done so that the many Americans who look to Perot as a savior from incompetent, self- serving politics can judge whether his image squares with the facts...
...Savior politics occurs when distrust of the electoral system reaches a point where only a simple "truth teller" can put an end to the suspicion. The pervasive fear of communists in the late 1940s and early '50s bred many petty "saviors" who were going to rescue Hollywood, or the radio industry, or publishing. MacArthur and McCarthy were the supersaviors atop this pyramid of subordinate redeemers...
...POLITICS: Return of the Savior...