Word: sours
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Isaacson's challenge has been to go beyond the predictable who's-up, who's-down handicapping of the race to bring a more penetrating vision to the key players and the larger issues. "The campaign may have seemed sour and petty," Isaacson says, "but we tried to find interesting ways to cover it." He points with special pride to a series of essays in which the magazine explored the issues that received short shrift from the candidates: health care, the underclass, homelessness, relations with the Soviets. The Grapevine section took readers behind the scenes for exclusive candid snapshots...
...sour note--and it is a particularly dissonant one--is struck by the sound system. In a show of this caliber, with the kind of money Mainstage shows get, it is inexcusable to have feedback obscuring the performers' voices. In addition, the accompanying rock band overpowers the singers voices. Even by the third performance these problems still hadn't been worked out. But sound problems aside, this Evita is, as Eva describes Buenos Aires, "certain to impress...
Voters can bid good riddance to the sour, trivial campaign...
Such is the sour legacy of 1988, an election year that was to substance what cold pizza is to a balanced breakfast. Think of the words and phrases that 18 months of nonstop electioneering have underlined in the political lexicon: Monkey Business, the character issue, attack videos, plagiarism, wimp, handlers, sound bites, flag factories, tank ride, negative spots, the A.C.L.U., Willie Horton and likability. Match them with all the pressing national concerns that were never seriously discussed: from the Japanese economic challenge to the plight of the underclass. As the voters trudge off to the polls with all the enthusiasm...
...character of the two nominees. There are deeper forces at work as well, and understanding them may be the only way to prevent the 1992 race from becoming so ugly that it will even make voters nostalgic for this year's second debate. The collective responsibility for the sour campaign rests with what might be called the Five P's of Poison-Ivy Politics: the public, the process, the packagers, the polls and the press...