Word: trippiness
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With help from Deputy Campaign Manager Joe Trippi, Political Consultant Bob Shrum, 44, an intense and brilliant veteran wordsmith in four presidential campaigns, went to work on a television ad that would bring Gephardt's theme to life. It showed a stern-looking Gephardt promising to force the Koreans to reduce tariffs on American cars, or "they'll soon learn how many Americans will pay $48,000 for a Hyundai." The spot hit the air in Iowa the day after Christmas and grabbed viewers by the collar. "What the TV did was punch through what I'd been saying...
...campaign in which reporters detected the most movement last week was Hart's. "He's coming up," conceded Joe Trippi, who manages Mondale's efficient organization in Iowa. Declared Iowa Party Chairman David Nagle: "Hart's starting to get hot. He's become more aggressive...
...good coach is another reason. This year, Paul Blawie, a Law School man, is directing the team. Blawie played end on the 1946 Georgia team, led by Charley Trippi, which went to the Sugar Bowl. He has done a good job with good material, fielding a team with weight, speed, and spirit...
...feet at a sport luncheon explaining that he was bothered by 1) an old knee injury, 2) a shot of morphine to quiet the knee, 3) a double Daiquiri to quiet the morphine. His stories usually pictured his own rampaging footballers (among them Marshall Goldberg and Charles Trippi) as shy, timid little fellows who screamed unless he kept buying them lollipops and tucked them into bed at night. The opposition were brutes who combed their hair with wildcat claws. He fancied himself as the depressed coach without material who concentrated on character-building-and wasn't very good...
...Cardinals, led by Missouri's Paul Christman and Georgia's Charlie Trippi, were out to justify their paychecks (the collegians have won the last two games). From a T-formation, the Cardinals marched 80 yards to the game's first touchdown, stopped the only All-Star bid on the one-yard line, scored the most one-sided victory in the 15-year series...