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...television ads. One touts Bush's record, the other attacks Dole for supporting the national commission on the deficit, which the ad charges was proposed by Mario Cuomo, the "liberal Democratic Governor of New York." An Ailes assistant copies the ads and sends them by messenger to Pollster Robert Teeter and to campaign headquarters in Washington...
...Bush organization operates more like a board of directors than a classic pyramid, with each member having relatively equal access to the Vice President. The inner sanctum: Fuller, Campaign Manager Atwater, Media Consultant Ailes, Pollster Teeter, Communications Director Pete Teeley and Deputy Campaign Manager Rich Bond...
...Force Two. Bush confers with Fuller and Teeley, who report the latest from Atwater and Teeter. Fuller says the trip to Orlando has been dropped. "The numbers are too good," he says. Bush is disappointed. "We were going to work out with the Astros," he says. "I was going to show 'em my behind-the-back catch." When business is done, Bush leans back and reflects on his organization. "Nobody is in absolute charge of anything, everybody works together and knows they have to get a consensus. If there's a problem between people, I straighten it out. I guess...
...Greenville. Teeter and Fuller discuss media buys and travel arrangements. Their plans are predicated on Dole's. Robertson is rarely mentioned, Kemp not at all. Teeter has learned that day about Dole's media plans. "He's buying the living hell out of North Carolina. He committed for $334,000 in the last two days alone." Teeter reports on their own buys: "We bought Columbia-Jefferson City today and upped our buy a little bit in St. Louis. We're only going comparative in South Carolina so far." (In their parlance, Dole's ads are negative; Bush's are "comparative...
Those with personalities just this side of the grave will cough, teeter, then collapse at the indignities Sellars has wrought upon the story. But all of Handel's operas are dramatic dogs anyway--there is nothing a director could do to the script to make the spectacle any less unbelievable. The juxtaposition of Handel's mostly sunny score and modern theatrical hijinks is potentially as worthy as any other approach...