Word: unreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of substantive differences between today's candidates reflects the media's role in presidential campaigns, several professors said. The media "helps create a very unreal view of what is required of a president," Mass says. "The idea that a debate between two candidates on TV should determine which is better qualified is extraordinary. If one knows more facts than the other, that's not the only thing--the president, after all, has lots of people to get facts for him." Huntington agrees: "Who can govern the country best shouldn't be the one who can appeal most...
...uncertain direction of the economy stands in ironic contrast to the similarly unsettled conditions that prevailed during Carter's first presidential drive in 1976. At that time, the immediate outlook suggested not the illusion of stable recovery and growth that now prevails, but an equally unreal threat of an approaching slump. Indeed, economists who worked for Gerald Ford at the time complain bitterly that misleading and later revised figures for August, September and October 1976 may have cost him the election by allowing Carter to warn of an imminent downturn under the Republicans. In fact, within three months after...
When he took to national politics there still was something unreal about him. He was a nice guy in an airplane, with a pretty wife, bumping around the country, dismayingly pleasant, shuffling his file cards and giving audiences his rouser on family and freedom. A lot of people thought that one morning they would wake up and he would be gone, back with his old footage on one of those sunny hills where aging actors go to wrinkle, with only their memories watching...
After months of dispiriting news, thank you for the heady subject of this week's cover. Really unreal...
...statistics alone do not give a full sense of the volcano's fury. Bob Carpenter, a Portland auto mechanic, described the destruction that he saw as he rode by train across the muddy, logjammed Toutle River: "It was eerie, unreal, almost like looking at a graveyard in a London fog, with steam rising among the sheared trees and debris and only the sound of the train on the track." Susan Hobart, a reporter for Portland's Oregonian, added: "The living are not welcome here. The ground rejects you, trying to suck you into foot-deep mud. Chill winds...