Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will be difficult for Hart to reinvent himself now. He still obtusely sees his past behavior and dreadful judgment as tactical errors. If somehow he had been able openly to accept his errors for what they were, his comeback might seem more plausible. But there was one happy glint. His personal problems, Hart observed, had brought him a dividend he never imagined. "For a lot of people," he said, "I've become more human. I was always seen as a one-dimensional figure. Now people walk up to me differently. They see me as a person who's suffered. They...
Hart is right about one thing: dissatisfaction with the field is rampant among Democratic voters. Perhaps because all the other Democratic candidates have been diminished by endless TV debates and their uninspired campaigning, they seem to have surprisingly high unfavorable ratings. Dukakis and Paul Simon are the only two with relatively low negatives; Richard Gephardt, Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt now have unfavorable ratings that are higher than their favorable ones, a marked shift from previous polls. The survey showed that 41% wanted Mario Cuomo to get in the race and 31% wanted Bill Bradley...
...characters burdened with the necessity of being typical have a hard time simply being themselves. Peter and Paul are so busy representing alternate responses to stimuli that they seem ganglions rather than real folks. Deighton can rarely resist the temptation to point out the big issues behind his narrative. He interrupts a scene of trench warfare with a sweeping comment on some of the combatants: "They were Germans, and their readiness to obey instructions was a measure of their civilization, and their tragedy...
...unlikely that more than a few will survive for 50 or even 25 years. Kiefer carries a disregard for the permanence of his materials to such an extreme that the lead will not stay in place and the straw on some canvases is already rotting, though this does not seem to discourage collectors...
...focal point of relations between the two countries. During the long and twisted walk up to the summit, Fritz Ermarth, the chief Soviet expert on the National Security Council, cracked, "Detente is dirty work, but somebody's got to do it." Last week Reagan and Gorbachev made it seem like good clean...