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Barrett and Mrs. Reagan quickly found they had something in common: a son trying to make it in professional ballet. "Nancy Reagan became a frequent and helpful source," Barrett says. "Though she is sensitive to criticism, she is also able to take negative comments in stride, more or less, provided that the observations are factual. When I reported in 1980 that she tended to carry a grudge, she laughingly complained, then joked that she would remember that sentence for only a few years. She has a sense of humor as well as a sense of politics...
...pronounced that men must wear jackets and ties at all times. Women could wear stone- washed jeans, but not regular ones. To build unity, and save time, staff members were encouraged to lunch at the hangar's cafeteria. Ueberroth was a regular. With his thin mouth and athlete's stride (he looks strikingly like the 1940s actor William Lundigan), he had become a revered, somewhat intimidating presence...
...assume secondary importance when Conti is on the screen. Director Rick Rosenthal starts the film off slowly; the first quarter of the movie up to Palmer's arrival in Paris bears an embarrassing resemblance to three or four well-known television sitcoms. But Paris allows him to hit his stride, and move the movie along at a comfortably fast clip. The script by Jim Kouf and Jeff Greenwalt would not, by itself, bust any guts, but then again, with Conti on their side it does not have...
While Mondale glowed, on the attack at last, Ronald Reagan grumped, on the defensive for the first time in the campaign. The loser in Louisville by common consent, the President seemed off stride early in the week; he meandered through speeches in Charlotte, N.C., and Baltimore, drawing only polite applause from friendly audiences. But by midweek he had regained his form. He began to counterpunch, denouncing by name an adversary he had loftily ignored in most of his appearances before the debate. "My opponent in this campaign has made a career out of weakening America's armed forces!" cried Reagan...
...strength and tradition of Harvard rowing attracted him over that of other Ivy League schools. He speaks of a certain "Harvard style" in crew. "It's very fluid, you try to remove and check or hesitation in your stride...