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...veneer that all these experts come on the show with nowadays. You get them angry enough, they'll blow their stack and tell you what they really think." The show's producers say Downey's abrasive style fills a gap left by the departure of Joe Pyne and other strident talk stars of the '60s. Though Downey's audience outside the New York City area is limited to about 14 million cable homes that receive WWOR, there is already talk of nationwide syndication. This could be the start of something big, or at least loud. Several other confrontational talk shows...
...California two years later, Nixon was written off even by himself. "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore," he told reporters the morning after his California loss. Yet in 1968 Nixon bounced all the way back after an image makeover by Madison Avenue hucksters. The still strident Nixon successfully was presented to the voters as "The New Dick...
...being noncommittal, but they will have trouble taking back their comments during the Bork fight, when some identified Kennedy as the type of conservative they could accept. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, who helped lead the opposition against Bork, describes Kennedy as "decent instead of dogmatic, sensitive instead of strident." Those may not be the qualities of a legal groundbreaker, but they are far from the worst qualifications for judging the most explosive issues in American life, all of which sooner or later wind up before the Supreme Court...
...revenues of $8.4 million and a mailing list of 6 million names. But it is not likely to be as visible a part of the landscape under Falwell's anointed successor, Atlanta Entrepreneur Jerry Nims. Says Robert Skolrood, director of the National Legal Foundation: "We have passed through our strident period...
While some of Hite's women are more moderate, even conciliatory, the emphasis on the strident seems off-key to many observers. Grace Pierce, 31, a Houston architect, objects to Hite's portrayal of women as "total victims." Says she: "I don't buy that." Women used to blame themselves for everything, observes Eileen O'Grady, 31, a business writer at the Houston Post. "Now we are saying, 'It's his fault,' and that's just...