Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HART. For re-entering. Runner-up: the Dukakis campaign for releasing the attack video on Biden, then fueling the rumor that Gephardt's people...
Such moments supposedly provide insight into a hidden reality. In a flash they divulge the inner self, the man behind the mask. They are video epiphanies, what media wizards call a "defining moment." The viewer does not so much receive information as he does an impression. From that impression an opinion may be formed, and based on that opinion, a vote may be cast...
...last September when Rather stalked away from his anchor duties and left the network blank for more than six minutes. The tightly coiled anchorman, a combustible character in the coolest of mediums, seemed almost to spring out of his chair, unsettling his audience with high-voltage intensity. It was video High Noon: Bush had shot down the legendary media gunslinger from Black Rock. It was the new George Bush. Not Bush the perpetual stand-in, but Bush the stand-up guy. Bush Unbound. Bush Unwimped...
...still repeats many of the same cliches with which he began, especially in his gooey rule-of-law foreign policy rhetoric. Still, he surrounds himself with competent people and inspires loyalty and trust. His trustworthy image helped him survive the revelation that his campaign manager had leaked the "attack video" that destroyed the candidacy of Joseph Biden. There was a certain prissy high-mindedness to Dukakis' response, but that too is an authentic glimpse of his underlying character...
...pink branch. Another woman tried on an exquisite Arlesian fichu. She had it on backward, but it was still charming. Acting out their dress-up fantasies, or simply getting to the changing cabins, they all seemed to trip over a dark fellow lying on the rug intently watching a video. He laughed now and then and clapped his hands at the good parts, utterly oblivious to the rock royalty or the clients who could not get his clothes on right. The video was of his latest fashion show, which had triumphed just the day before. And Christian Lacroix was doing...