Word: wimp
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...sometimes ludicrous ways, politicians were swaggering all over America in 1984. Walter Mondale, acutely aware of his "wimp" image, used the words tough or strength 25 times during the second debate. Reagan incessantly used sports metaphors: "Isn't it great to see America scoring touchdowns again?" When George Bush accused the Democratic ticket of saying that American Marines died "in shame" in Lebanon, Mondale denied it and said Bush didn't have "the manhood" to apologize. Bush, who merits consideration for the Ernest Hemingway Moveable Feast Invidious Braggadocio Trophy this year, replied, "I'll lay my record...
...BEEN an almost Diogenesian task of late to find a Reagan backer on campus who can rationalize support for the President with arguments that: (1) do not smugly dismiss Walter F. Mondale as a "wimp"; (2) are more sophisticated than "I want a job;" and (3) do not include the words "optimism," "patriotism," "Olympics," "standing tall," or--and this is the killer--"What difference does it make...
...anti-intellectual nature of support for the President among voters aged 18-24 is a result of the fact that our generation is the first to live and die by the media eye. We are the first generation raised entirely in a culture that reacts more strongly to "wimp," "loser," and "macho" than to substantive policy discussions, that bases its decisions and learns the news in media bites rather than in in-depth studies, and that is more concerned with style and image than any generation before...
...their main characters. Body Double presents a familiar De Palma loner: a pleasant enough wimp who becomes fascinated, then sexually obsessed, with a faraway female figure. This time the wimp is Jack, a movie actor (Craig Wasson), and the love object is a wealthy young woman (Deborah Shelton) with a body as taut and talented as a porn star's. Too soon, Jack finds he must share the fantasy. Another man is watching, one who has more violent designs on the woman: murder by a power drill that moves toward her and through her like the phallus of death...
ANSWERS: actor, Bill Murray; facial expression, plastered; the films, Stripes, Ghostbusters. Drama? Comedy? Pick either; if Razor's Edge tells us anything, it's not to indulge in such theoretical musings; were a reincarnated William Shakespeare to cast Murray as King Lear, no doubt every wimp's favorite drillmaster could deadpan even the death scene...