Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Squalid politics," fumed Republican Senator John Tower of Texas. G.O.P. National Chairman Bill Brock sniffed that Jimmy Carter "has a lot of nerve even showing up in this city." But there he was smack-dab and unrepentant in Detroit, the capital of an auto industry that has been forced to lay off one-third of its workers. While the Republicans were getting ready to throw their big bash and coronation, Carter swept through town en route to Japan and illustrated the power of a President to steal headlines from his opponents by acting on problems they can only denounce...
...grand tradition of Broadway and Hollywood, the Kennedy School of Government brought Harvard a bit of the old sparkle and a splash of the spot light this year. Using the glamorous Institute of Politics (IOP) Forum, a three-story atrium smack in the middle of the K-School structure, as his stage, Nicholas Mitropoulos, assistant director of the IOP, orchestrated a gala revue of presidential candidates, prominent journalists, and other luminaries. After 105 presentations and an attendance record which would put some major league baseball teams to shame, Mitropoulos can lean back and reflect, "I think we were pretty successful...
Hook your audience in the first five minutes, most screenwriting manuals instruct. And there it is, smack on page five, the hook "He is your child too." Poor Bob. He has this perfect marriage with Sheila. They have two lovely daughters, precocious Jessica and wide-eyed Paula. Bob teaches statitics at MIT. Sheila edits books at Harvard University Press. Half way through their twenty year marriage, Bob had an affair with Nicole in the south of France, which he never admitted to Sheila. Nicole is dead but has a son...Bob tells Sheila...
...Heps are traditionally a bad meet for Harvard, coming as they do smack in the middle of reading period, and, to add more excuses, the 85-degree heat and punishing track surface didn't help matters. However, the thinclads did turn in some fine performances,including several personal bests, to sweeten the return trip back to Cambridge, where the world of the deadline takes precedence over the world of the finish line...
...other Europeans, Carter's erratic moves smack of domestic American politics. The French specifically feel that it is more than coincidental that Carter decided to get tough with Iran and the allies on the eve of this week's Pennsylvania presidential primary. Their own domestic politics, however, also play a role in shaping the allies' response to Washington; Chancellor Schmidt must stand for election next fall, and he is being criticized by Franz Josef Strauss, his rival, for being too soft on the Soviets...