Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his convention acceptance speech, Dukakis proclaimed that "this election is not about ideology, it's about competence. And it's not about meaningless labels. It's about American values." Wrong. Labels have a great deal of significance in American politics. A candidate who refuses to define himself allows his opponent to make those definitions. Vice President George Bush's strategists realize that and they've kept Dukakis on the ropes since August because...
...Cassandras predicted that huge deficits during an economic recovery would inevitably lead to renewed inflation (if the Fed went along by increasing the money supply) or an interest-rate squeeze and a U-turn back into recession (if the Fed held fast). They also were wrong. They overlooked the new globalization of credit markets and the willingness of foreigners to step in and supply the dough. The Cassandras have been updating their scenarios throughout the 1980s: the overvalued dollar will destroy American industry; or, the undervalued dollar will hand American industry to foreigners; or, when the foreigners get tired...
...Bird, the movie based on the great sax man's short, messy, indispensable life as one of the founding innovators of modern jazz, knows better. It surrenders to the right things, his compositions and performances, reconstructed with compelling authenticity by music supervisor Lennie Niehaus. And it repels the wrong things, the damp pity and even damper piety that usually attend movie explorations of "genius." This film hates easy explanations almost as much as it loves the hard complexity of Bird's song...
...least part of the reason for the muted response is that NBC was doing a sober, workmanlike job of news coverage at a happening that is not best appreciated as a news event. NBC's telecasts lacked juice. They dampened emotions by highlighting what often proved to be the wrong events; they cut away at the wrong moments; they stinted most medal ceremonies. The dominant, brooding presence was anchor Bryant Gumbel, on loan from Today. He was as smooth and knowledgable as usual, but with gravity better suited to a Moscow summit. NBC has plenty of on-air talent, including...
...Louganis to be after eight dives in the springboard preliminaries. This is something like saying the sun was where you expected it to be at noon. Next up was a moderately difficult reverse somersault that he was accustomed to nailing for 8s and 9s, but this time it went wrong. He jumped almost straight up instead of up and out, spun too close to the board, cracked his head on the board's edge as he rotated backward, and wobbled raggedly into the water. It was the melodrama of the Seoul competition's opening week, and the message of this...