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...familiar political types, from the tough-as-nails campaign manager (Pamela Reed), who fends off late-night calls from Joe Kennedy Jr., to the overzealous staff cameraman, who dogs Tanner's every step with his whirring minicam. The candidate, meanwhile, is an earnest but wimpy liberal who quotes Adlai Stevenson at environmental rallies and wilts slowly under a shower of political advice ("You really need to define yourself in relation to the other candidates"). It looks, sounds and feels like the real thing. But it's flagrantly fake -- and funny...
...laxmen lost to Brown, 9-6, at Stevenson field in Providence, Rhode Island, in front of 140 spectators. It was only the second time this year that the Crimson (7-2) has fallen...
...Amanda Stevenson...
...turns her into a fascinating and realistic person, the perfect complement to the Lear-ish Susan. Fass captures Alice's precarious perch on the line between comedy and cynicism. The audience simultaneously shudders and laughs as she whips sarcasms and insults at her hapless student Dorcas Grey (Sarah Stevenson). Fass knows how to develop a character, and she has the timing and the bearing of a classic comedian, the ideal safety valve in a complex tragedy...
...open democracy" that was one of the ideals of 1968. Each step of the way, with each new reform and primary rule, the process would become messier and more unwieldy. As a result, the party leaders chosen by the back-room bosses, people like John Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, were succeeded by contenders like George McGovern and Jimmy Carter, who could best catch the whims of the moment and spend the most time courting voters in the states with early primaries...