Word: slickness
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Front:Late night with "Slick Willie...
...thing either campaign has to someone with street smarts. Just as Matalin is politically more liberal than Bush, Carville is more conservative than Clinton. Both are up-by-the-bootstraps white ethnics whose rough-cut personalities don't always fit neatly in a business that has been dominated by slick schmoozers. Both love to cook and jog and escape to a mountain hideaway near Front Royal, Va., on weekends. Says Matalin: "We have plenty of things besides politics to argue about...
...center in Little Rock. Suddenly, good ideas that had been kicking around the campaign were carried out. Media adviser Mandy Grunwald had been arguing for months that Clinton should do The Arsenio Hall Show. In fact, Clinton's comeback may well have begun on Arsenio, when the image of Slick Willie gave way to Saxophone Bill. On a more substantive level, Stephanopoulos directed the drafting of Clinton's new economic plan, now a campaign centerpiece. As Robert Shapiro, a ranking Clinton economic adviser, puts it: "When George says something has to be done, everyone knows he's speaking for Clinton...
...point is not love or family but politics: endearing the candidate to the nation as a man of sensitivity and caring. Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg, reports the New York Times, said his polls showed that the candidates' "sense of revelation" had reduced the impression of their being "too slick and too political...
...Bush-Quayle high command tried to counter this brewing insurrection last week by dispatching campaign manager Fred Malek to Capitol Hill. Malek gave House Republicans an upbeat private briefing and a slick brochure trumpeting the President's accomplishments. But many G.O.P. lawmakers felt patronized and berated Malek and his campaign colleagues for the message "vacuum" that has allowed Democrats Bill Clinton and Al Gore to pull some 30 points ahead of Bush in the polls. Minnesota's Vin Weber said several of his colleagues sarcastically urged the Bush-Quayle campaign to stop "sitting on our lead." Meanwhile, some of Bush...