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...closest friends use) as adoring fan and adviser in small things. "Smile, honey, smile!" she will whisper to the candidate as he gets ready to tape a TV interview. A onetime movie actress who appeared in such films as East Side, West Side (1949) and Shadow on the Wall (1950), she gave up her career to marry Reagan. The candidate seems quite accurate when he says, "Any interest that she has in politics, she got from me." She does play a significant part, however, in Reagan's decisions about his staff...
...since it is yet unnamed by Political Chronicler Theodore H. White. It is not the garden variety syndrome that even a political science professor could identify. The thing normally cannot be seen or heard. It is not easily documentable with dates and places and simple sentences. It is a shadow that has followed Bush throughout his national prominence. It showed up again in the New Hampshire campaign, and in the squalid Nashua argument over who should or should not debate. That helped trigger some of the electoral doubts that engulfed Bush in the primary...
...very symptomatic reminder of society's ability to be casually jaded and normally self-centered and perpetuate the terrible excesses of Farview. The brutality of guards to patients is, Rawls implies, only the central, most immediate and intense expression of the dehumanization of relations that casts a shadow over the achievements of the modern world. The callousness of boots and straps and syringes extends into our normal world, in concentric circles of insensitivity, to the administrators, the local citizens, the politicians, and the press who ignored the whispers of truth about Farview...
...realization that Jimmy Carter is God's personal representative on earth, the authors indulge in baths of high-school psychology. From his childhood in Georgia, little Jimmy carries the entire burden of Southern history to Annapolis, where he grits his teeth for three years. Laboring under the shadow of his father, Carter develops the win-or-die attitude of the killer politician. Crushed by his failure to win the governor's seat the first time around, Carter goes off to find himself, "a star pupil in the self-improvement school...
Sophy looked monstrous, huge, black-eye-hollows and the Hitlerian moustache of shadow caught by the light under her nostrils...