Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take the Republican assault on Governor Dukakis over the Pledge of Allegiance. This bare-knuckled attack aimed to accomplish two things. One was to locate and identify the Governor for a national audience. The Republicans' intentions, of course, were malign, but they found their opening in Dukakis' relative obscurity outside...
This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign. The candidates perform simulations of encounters with the real world, but the exercise is principally a series of television visuals, of staged events created for TV cameras. The issues have become as weightless as clouds of electrons...
Bush went from patrician Connecticut to the Texas oil fields as a young man; he has gone from moderate Republican to right-wing Republican, from one identity to another, from one appointive office to another, and these transitions seem at last to add up to a sense of permanent motion...
One man who helped transform that election campaign into instantaneous myth was Theodore H. White. The Making of the President 1960 was the first of a series of five he wrote. White's description of the 1960 race, as one reads it now, seems an endearing period piece. One cannot...
Michael Dukakis' campaign caravan, like a sleek, sinuous dragon, all flashing lights, police outriders, limo, station wagons, Secret Service, staff, two buses for the press, sweeps through Sacramento at 8 in the morning, all traffic halted at intersections by leapfrogging police cars with astonishing precision. Not an instant's impedance...