Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sketches on a note pad for the Little Prince. It is an act of friendly homage that devotees of the book will like as much as Donen's fidelity to the fragile spirit of the original. He has in fact pulled off a rather difficult challenge. The visual style of the film is lush (parts were photographed in the southern Tunisian desert), but there are no big production numbers, since there are never more than two characters on-screen at once. The Little Prince is thus something in the way of a gentle coup, a musical of both ebullience...
...when she becomes Governor. But she has no misgivings. At a recent campaign appearance, a sartorially conscious Teamsters official asked: "If you are elected Governor, will you wear stockings?" Replied Ella: "I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings." She plans to change her political style no more than her casual dress. "It's important for me to continue to stop in cafes, to keep my curbside office that allows me to walk down the street and do business." In becoming the highest-ranking woman in U.S. politics, she has been inescapably catapulted nationally into...
Bumpers' campaign style is awesome, even in the tall-tale-loving, flesh-pressing South. He did not just shake a voter's hand and pass on. He found out the man's name, rolled it over his tongue a few times, inquired about his relatives and, more often than not, produced a better-than-average anecdote about a mutual acquaintance. He was careful to stick to his political ground rules: never attack an opponent, never start an argument, never take a stand on an issue when it can be avoided...
...state economy," says Lamm. "But growth has to be controlled. What we're really demanding is that growth pay its way." Unless it does, he fears that Colorado will soon resemble the ravaged landscape of West Virginia. "We're all happy to be Americans," says this new-style states'-righter, "but we're not going...
...political style is dead. It should be buried, particularly by Presidents. Everybody except the politicians seems to sense that. Hoopla, frantic flying, blarney about peace and prosperity are worthless. Worse, they are laughable...