Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is sound reason for that harsh assessment. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about Bush's career has been his consistent failure to fashion an agenda of his own, to display a broad set of principles, to show imagination or initiative. It is an unsettling trait for a man who would be leader of the free world...
...nation fell into crisis, could Bush show the decisiveness, the moral authority and necessary sense of command to guide the country through the dilemma? "After Ronald Reagan, people may be looking for another John Wayne," says Bush's media adviser Roger Ailes. "Well, George Bush isn't John Wayne. He's Gary Cooper in High Noon. He doesn't want to fight; he'd rather sit and talk things out. But if provoked, he'll fight. And he'll whip you." If the prospective Republican nominee can convince more people that he has that kind of gumption, then the title...
...Show Business...
Americans have too long been skittish about criticizing Israel and its policies. It is high time to show a friend what friends...
...Jackson's name had been dabbed with Wite-Out. His win was impressive: a plurality of the Democratic popular vote. But as the evening wore on, commentators and candidates began talking about a two-man Democratic race, as if Jackson were the pace horse of the piece, running to show, not to win. Even the newly anointed third runner, Al Gore, referred to a race between himself and Dukakis, oblivious to the fact that if it were a two-man race, he would be out of it. When Jackson corrected him, Gore, who needs Jackson more than Jackson needs...