Word: standin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democrat stood behind a podium in the dining room of his Washington home. Michael Severn, president of Columbia University and one of Mondale's former law professors at the University of Minnesota, usually played the President. At other times Aaron or Senior Adviser Richard Leone was the Reagan standin. Mondale would repeat some answers four times, refining his phrasing and gestures. The sessions were filmed and then critiqued. Said one Mondale adviser: "It's like a graduate seminar being videotaped...
...still skip around the country deliver performances which are mere shadows of the steamy Motown era. The Four Tops, wearing matching but noticeably larger suits, now sing only a medley of their half-dozen super hits, apparently lacking the stamina to bring the house down with full versions of "Standin' in the Shadows of Love" and "Reach Out I'll Be There...
...Project Mercury's Astrochimps, Enos passed the remainder of his Government service in relative obscurity. During celebrations in Washington marking the 20th anniversary of Glenn's historic spaceflight, the Democratic Senator from Ohio was given a surprise party. Enos couldn't make it, but a standin, dressed in a monkey suit, did, saluting Glenn and Wife Anna with four stanzas of doggerel, sung to the tune of When Johnny Comes Marching Home. A sampling: "Our pay was just the fruit we ate/ Hoorah, Hoorah/ But Johnny earned a lifelong fame/ Hoorah, Hoorah/ I hope that when...
Presidential styles are always a matter of elaborate psychological discretion and democratic fine tuning. A President cannot in any important way violate the values of his people or the spirit of his time; not with impunity, anyway. A President, being standin, scapegoat and exemplar, works even closer to the Zeitgeist than Phil Donahue. Before the sumptuous Reagan Inaugural, Barry Goldwater objected: "When you've got to pay $2,000 for a limousine (four-day rental required at $500 per), $7 to park and $2.50 to check your coat, at a time when most Americans can't hack...
...institutes in the Ukraine in the 1930s. He became deputy chairman of GOSPLAN, the state planning committee, in 1963, a Deputy Premier in 1965 and a full member of the Politburo last November. By then, as First Deputy Premier, he had already become Kosygin's virtually full-time standin...