Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accentuating the negative. The rule is: when in doubt, attack; when attacked, counterattack. History will show that in New Hampshire last week a Vice President's hard- hitting, negative television ads in response to an insurgent Senator's first strike pushed the Vice President to victory. On the Democratic side, two rivals strafed each other over the airwaves and basically reached a draw...
Less than 24 hours after Dick Gephardt arrived in New Hampshire, Paul Simon's negative ads were on the air. They were designed to act as a video karate chop to the Iowa victor's momentum. Again, there were simple side-by- side head shots of the candidates followed by a slanted comparison of voting records. Gephardt's tracking polls showed his lead over Simon diminishing to almost zero...
Without Reagan to subsume them all into one fold, Republicans show signs of splintering into four of their old tribes: the country-club and Wall Street establishment, the Main Street heartland conservatives, the Religious Right and the fervent disciples of supply side. Reagan in 1984 could be claimed "one of us" by all of these groups. But this time, each has its own standard-bearer: Bush, Dole, Robertson or Kemp...
...extreme: a few blocks dense with too many lights and too much action, a happy chaos of honky-tonk night life (the Florodora girls, Legs Diamond's Hotsy Totsy Club), theatrical bliss (Barrymore's Hamlet, the Marx Brothers) and the spontaneous razzmatazz of the rialto. There was a civic side as well: Times Square became the natural New York place for jubilation en masse, every New Year's Eve and every time America...
Those were the good old days. Tourists and all kinds of New Yorkers still come to the boulevards and side streets, and the Broadway theater still has its headquarters in the half-mile strip north of 42nd Street. With its theaters, odd shops and even odder people, Times Square remains a singularly exciting place. But the balance between high life and low life did tip for the worse during the 1960s and '70s. Pornography merchants proliferated, and street criminals grew more brazen. Funk and festivity were too often edged out by rattiness and fear...