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When exhaustion hits, her spunk can turn to bile. At the end of a rugged four-day campaign swing, she gave an ungenerous press conference. "Where have you been?" she snapped to a not-too-acute questioner, and said to another, "I answered that before-wasn't I loud enough?" Republicans contend that displays of her clackety-clack Queens, N.Y., style put off vast numbers of voters. Says one White House aide of Ferraro: "She comes across as too abrasive." Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, suggests her audiences are swollen by the converted and the merely curious...
Ferraro has taught us how to minimize the effect of breaking rules: a) claim ignorance, b) blame advisers, c) show spunk. None of these actions, however, changes the facts...
...that, some Democrats express hope that the whole affair will work to the advantage of their ticket. Beckel insists that because Ferraro showed so much spunk under fire, "this netted out as a political plus." One senior strategist asserts that Ferraro's performance instilled in campaign workers across the country a fighting spirit that "sometimes turns certain defeats into victories...
...audience either was laughing or snickering. Danilo Radojevic was superb in his characterization of the male lead. He acted and danced, poked fun and tried to be serious without displaying any conscious effort or strain. In past years, Mikhail Baryshnikov has danced this part, but Radojevic added his own spunk and cleverness that equally compare to Baryshnikov's dazzling reputation...
...This is truly the first time that Princeton and Penn are coming in here and that we actually have a good chance of beating them," McLaughlin says with such spunk that it's hard not to believe him. "Up until now, they'd come in here and know they were better. Now, they don't know that anymore. It's all about equal...