Word: smalltowner
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Connally's sure, deep voice exudes confidence, comforting and commanding his Chicago audience like a wise smalltown sheriff. Speaking without a prepared text, he ticks off facts and figures, developing his arguments lucidly and engaging his listeners with a tone of careful sincerity. He is always controlled, raising his voice only for emphasis. Yet he comes across as a vibrant orator, striking an emphatic rhythm like an oldtime Democrat. His Texan images are simple but colorful: the stubborn steer, the weak-kneed politician, the businessman cowering in fear of the Government. Connally has the earthiness of a backland tenant farmer...
...contains a simulacrum of a human being. When fully ripened, the pod is capable of replacing, with no one the wiser, the individual it perfectly replicates physically. The trouble is that the pod people are the living dead, incapable of emotion or strong belief. In the old movie, a smalltown doctor and his lady bravely, exhaustingly and with no assistance tried to resist the takeover. In its day, Invasion made a moving, and exciting film. Among other things, it was a metaphorical assault on the times when, under the impress of McCarthyism and two barbecues in every backyard, the entire...
...candidate looks like a smalltown professor, vintage 1956: the haircut is modified crew, the clothes drab and slightly ill-fitting, the rhetoric sparing and precise. The other candidate actually is a professor, but with his practiced flamboyance, a wardrobe of elegant mismatches and a manner that oscillates from pixie to pedagogue and back within a 60-second monologue, he comes across more like a ripe character actor in search of his next role. The contrast is appropriate because rarely do voters get a chance to choose between candidates for the Senate-or any other office-who differ so clearly...
...business-more for the prestige than the billings they bring. Yet for the industry the billings are nothing to sneeze at; the Ford and Carter campaigns have advertising budgets that total at least $18.5 million (about $10 million of that for Ford). Perhaps in an effort to keep their smalltown, mainstream images unsullied, both candidates have avoided the sophisticated agencies of Madison Avenue. Carter's adman is Atlanta-based Gerald Rafshoon, while the Ford campaign is being handled by Bostonian Malcolm MacDougall...
...some contentiousness, ABC has signed up Senator Barry Goldwater as a commentator (Senator George McGovern will play a similar role at the Republican convention). ABC already has a drawerful of short (less than four minutes), filmed feature stories on such topics as Jimmy Carter's advisers, a smalltown delegate's impressions of New York City, and the nightmarish 1924 convention, for use when tedium swamps the podium. CBS has a smaller collection of prepackaged material, though for the first time the network is eschewing film for the seemingly greater immediacy of videotape...