Word: impression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limited to pollsters, party activists, key fund raisers and the national press corps, whose job it is to winnow the unwieldy field and set the expectations that the candidates must meet in Iowa and New Hampshire next February. They are the elite audience the candidates have been trying to impress in living rooms from Muscatine to Manchester...
...caught embezzling money from Masonite. With the $166,000 he stole, Rault bought a larger house, built a swimming pool and took his parents on vacations to Disney World and San Francisco. "He flipped out," remembers a former associate. "He wanted the image of success, especially to impress his family...
...drew near. Greenspan responded that he "obviously would reject" any such pressure and declared the Fed's political independence to be "terribly critical." He has little choice, moneymen say. "His life will be very difficult if he is perceived as someone who will play politics. He has got to impress ((central bankers)) abroad, and the way to do that is by being a tough guy," says John Makin, director of fiscal policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
...Democrats encounter another problem, however, as they do their Atlas act to impress independent-minded voters. The candidates must also appeal to party loyalists who dominate the nomination contest. These activists in most Northern states lean leftward -- feminine as Caddell has defined it -- and pressure national candidates to toe their issue lines. The result can turn muscle to flab...
...Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through the gloved finger of his steel hand and then, to impress a gawking boy, blow smoke from the glove's ruptured finger. Is the movie gaily influenced by old Howard Hawks, Roger Corman and even Jerry Lewis films? Then Dante will cast veteran actors identified with those directors...