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...Ford counselor. "He promises everybody." The question among the staff is whether Ford has the finesse to bring off such an exercise. "Ford is not a hard attacker," says Stu Spencer, the President's deputy campaign manager. "He went after Reagan in Texas on the Panama Canal and wound up shooting himself in the leg. He's a soft attacker." But ever since his scrappy acceptance speech in Kansas City, Ford seems to have a new enthusiasm about himself. He has pored over Carter's statements for the past several years and memorized the inconsistencies...
...capable and fair, he will undoubtedly attract that controlling group of voters who are eager for a change. But if he shows poorly, is seen as calculating or waffling or brittle, his Everyman could turn into No Man, the candidate who reached for so many constituencies that he wound up with none...
Cannonballs and antique china. The sword and uniform Robert E. Lee wore at Appomattox. Jeb Stuart's boots and the saddle on which he received his fatal wound at Yellow Tavern. Stonewall Jackson's cap. Three hundred battle flags. It was all there in the venerable "White House of the Confederacy"?the 158-year-old mansion where President Jefferson Davis lived at Richmond. Since the turn of the century, awed Southerners have walked through the hallowed building?along with curious Yankees. Together, they and the memorabilia helped to prolong the cliché of the South as a place where...
Total narcissism is generally taken to mean an inability to distinguish the self from the outside world, as an infant makes no distinction between himself, his mother and a bottle of milk. Reeling from some past wound to selfesteem, the narcissist exploits and manipulates others in a quest to be admired. Says Psychoanalyst Donald Kaplan: "Other people exist like a candy machine. If there's no candy left, the narcissist starts kicking the machine...
...long-lost son of two people he could live without, Solti was holding cold compresses to his head. Like the seasoned pros they are, the members of the orchestra began the subsequent sextet by themselves. His arms beating as he ascended into view, Solti returned to his place. His wound turned out to be minor, and was later patched with a small bandage. "Nothing like this has ever happened before," said Solti. Perhaps not in front of an audience, but Solti once stabbed his hand with a baton during a recording session in Vienna...