Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blue-collar workers and old folks turned out, the regular Democrats followed the endorsements of party leaders. Mondale even reached into the Chicago suburbs to win a large share of Hart's Yumpie (young upwardly mobile professional) vote. It went pretty much according to the pundits' script-at least as it was written before New Hampshire, when the Mondale campaign was still a "juggernaut" and Hart a "dark horse...
...just part of the deal. But my childhood was as happy as one can be in not plush economic circumstances." He changed his signature, he explained, "to make it easier to read." (To make his Senate letterhead signature legible, Hart dropped his middle name and switched from script to print.) As for the age change, which apparently occurred about the time Hart turned 30, "There's nothing sinister there. There is no benefit to me from it. It didn't help me politically, it didn't help me financially, it didn't help my career...
Weary Miamians had seen it happen three times since 1982: a black man is fatally shot by a white police officer, who is later acquitted by an all-white jury. Violence ensues. That script was followed inexorably last week when Luis Alvarez, 24, a Cuban police officer, was acquitted of manslaughter charges in the December 1982 shooting of Nevell Johnson Jr., 20, a Dade County messenger...
Unfortunately, in Paramount Pictures soon-to-be-released film Racing With the Moon, neither element is prominent enough to carry the film to a successful climax. The movie's script suffers from a predictable, cliche-ridden plot line that becomes readily apparent in the first 15 minutes--so much so, in fact, that the audience finds itself anticipating the characters' actions well in advance of their execution. And though some of the performances are surprisingly quite professional in spite of most of the actors youth and limited experience, the performers with few exceptions fail to transcend their stereotyped role...
...Office to give a last-minute briefing. While Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker watched approvingly, Richard Darman went over a typed page containing concise answers to six questions that he expected Volcker to pose. Reagan paid close attention to Darman's script...