Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Sellers answers questions with physical enactments and stand-up impressions, Burton found. "He thinks with his body and voice as well as his mind." When asked to explain the process by which he created the anonymous voice of Chance the gardener for the film Being There, the actor "began to transform himself into a computer," Burton says. "He pretended he was a machine reading a tape of several voices and rejecting one after another until the right voice registered." Over the course of the interviews, Sellers managed to imitate human voices as well, ranging from Lord Snowdon's uncle...
...rich countries is by no means best for the poor. In addition, Harberger and his colleagues fail to take income distribution into account, and when they boast that there has been "growth" and "progress" in Chile, one cannot help wondering "growth" for whom? Though he tried to explain his shady links with the Chilean junta on Sunday, February 17th, at the Kennedy School, those of us present remained unconvinced...
...better than Expected')." As the Times editorialized, the contest saw the presence of "that ghostly political personage, Better Than Expected," or B.T.E. In a race that ended with Carter winning 43.6% of the vote, Kennedy 40.2% and Brown 13.8%, the Times wondered: How can admirers explain their candidate's finish? For Carter fans, "To win by any margin means he did Better Than Expected." And for Kennedy adherents, "To trail by only a few points" means he did Better Than Expected. As for Brown's supporters, with his small tally, "He may not have qualified...
...Wallace skillfully cuts him up. The first important dustup over press bias has come from Tom Shales, the Washington Post's usually acute television critic. He accused all three networks of having had "a field day playing Get Teddy." He also discovered an unnamed "veteran political observer" to explain it: "There's been so much garbage about how the press loves the Kennedys in recent years that the reporters feel they all have to establish their neutral credentials by knocking him around." Perhaps some of the boys on the bus have too much time for self-analysis...
Bias certainly doesn't explain the hectoring tone in the press when a candidate doesn't perform up to his potential. It's more like a fight promoter's attempt to ensure a well-balanced card. Thus David S. Broder, contrasting Howard Baker's inept campaign in Maine with "the Howard Baker that Washington knows," concludes censoriously: "The man on the stump in this presidential campaign is a double who invites ridicule." James Reston reproves the voters themselves because John Anderson of Illinois, "a good man in a bad time," doesn't fare better...