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...Stuart Seattle...
...outcome did not seem so inevitable at the start of the year, though. Despite his winning personality, Reagan throughout his political career has been a polarizing figure who stirs strong antipathy as well as fervent support. Reagan Strategist Stuart Spencer describes the President as "an ideological incumbent who broke a lot of china as he rearranged the nation's priorities over the course of four years." Indeed, the President's advisers early in the year estimated the hardcore anti-Reagan vote at 40% of the electorate; that and the fact that more people still identify themselves as Democrats...
...costly cooler was exposed by an anonymous whistle-blower who wrote a letter to Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Boxer of California. Further investigation revealed that eight smaller units were bought this year, without competitive bidding, at $12,000 apiece. Commodore Stuart Platt, the Navy's first "competition advocate general," called the $16,571 payment "ridiculous." As he inspected the unit in Norfolk last week, he promised, "We are not trying to sweep this under the rug. We are learning from our mistakes." Indeed, the amount of Navy purchases made through competitive bidding increased from 26% in 1982 to 38% last...
...every assault on his record; his meandering, overly detailed responses had cost him points two weeks earlier in Louisville. Apart from the rehearsals, the President held briefing sessions with such advisers as Secretary of State George Shultz, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, longtime Reagan Adviser Stuart Spencer and White House Aides Baker and Michael Deaver...
What follows is a predictably heroic attempt by Stuart--the educated, urbanized outsider--to save the town from itself. He suspects that a toxic substance is causing the townspeople to repress the emotional mechanism designed to curb passions, literally lifting the lid off the id. His discoveries come--unsurprisingly--too late. The film's closing minutes play like a spinoff of The Stepford Wives...