Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Garth, a New York campaign adviser who works mainly for Democrats, said his private polls show a strong anti-Carter sentiment developing among the electorate. If the nomination does not go to Ted Kennedy, Garth predicted, "then it's going to go to someone else"-but not to Carter. Historian James Shenton of Columbia University said, "Carter increasingly looks like a man out of his depth...
...powerful Cook County Democratic Central Committee. She is a scrappy reformer who is out to rechannel the Democratic machine's energies into delivering services for Chicago's neglected neighborhoods, especially for the blacks and latinos who supported her. Her tough stand in suspending city supervisors who fail to show up for work has pleased taxpayers and set the city bureaucracy on nervous edge. Yet her use of patronage powers in appointing people of unquestioned loyalty?while firing holdovers from the previous administration?has made her the target of criticism. Says Byrne: "I dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance...
...publication for black women and gave it an audience, ad revenues and an editorial raison d'être. Serious service articles on health and careers replaced slick travel and fashion pieces. One of her big victories: persuading advertisers to use black models in ads for black consumers. "I wanted to show what black women really are: beautiful, courageous and incredibly vital people,' says Gillespie. Born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., and schooled at Lake Forest College, Gillespie, now editor in chief, is in demand as a speaker about the aspirations of black women, and Essence, with a circulation...
...shift in the narrative voice. In the banality of evil, as Hannah Arendt so well described, lies its horror. The pre-moral eyes of a growing child and the discipline of the poet lend the narrative the detachment needed to convey this banality. The narrator does not judge, but show, weaving the events into a fabric of legend and death...
...other thing worth mentioning about Dracula--aside from the terrible Latex, greasepaint and collodion jobs on a few of the vampires, and the turn-of-the century, tradition vs. modernism theme Badham and Richter apparently tried to concoct in the visuals--is the great love scene that stopped the show on Broadway. As Dracula and Lucy begin to embrace, their figures dissolve into multi-colored silhouettes and recede into the distance, whereupon a bunch of shapely limbs wind and unwind to John Williams' less than austere music. The whole thing is modeled on the title sequences in the Bond films...