Word: speech
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart has not taken Mondale's assaults quietly. In his Springfield speech, he renewed his attack on Mondale as the candidate of "the old arrangements and special-interest agenda that have locked up our party and this nation for too long." During the same speech in which he apologized to Mondale for his remarks about the ads that never ran, Hart implied that the former Vice President nonetheless is a liar. Accusing Mondale of falsely questioning his commitment to arms control and civil rights, Hart declared, "The fundamental issue still remains, and that is whether a candidate can purposely...
...received a wire from his father: "Dear Jack, Don't buy one more vote than necessary. I'll be damned if I'll pay for a landslide." Frank Mankiewicz suggests that Hart could turn the age-change issue into a joke simply by beginning a speech with a statement of fact and then, after pausing a beat, adding, "I'm as certain of that as I am of my own age." Hart's arduous climb from restless small-town boy to presidential contender has sharpened and toughened him. The campaign will test whether his steely...
...within sight of the guerrillas and under fire-in the newspapers, on television, on walls and roadside trees, painted with party messages. The campaign is more stirring for the upper and middle classes, but the poor are also involved, and everyone participating is doing so with total freedom of speech, lashing out at one another without mercy and at times ferociously, pushing opposing programs from the center left to the extreme right. The fact that the extreme left does not take part will limit but not invalidate the process. This represents progress. It is not fair to compare what...
...snowballing into a social phenomenon independent of product or sponsor. While such commercial catch phrases as "This Bud's for you," "Reach out and touch someone" and "Nothing beats a great pair of L'eggs" have become well known, few have been adopted so rapidly into everyday speech or been so thoroughly merchandised...
...speech was testimony, not dialogue, and the courtroom melodrama could claim the legitimacy of a news story. The account came from one of six Portuguese immigrants accused of the gang rape of a young woman on a barroom pool table in New Bedford, Mass. Two weeks before, the alleged victim had described equally vividly a far different version of the same scene, in which she was forced into intercourse, but fought off oral sex, while the bartender and some patrons looked on but did not summon the police...