Word: guyness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...proven competence, team work, experience and toughness. Since the participants had been dealing with one another for so many years, there were no personality clashes. Said one member of the panel: "It was like an after-lunch conversation at a private club. Everyone pretty much respected what the other guy was trying...
Ever since Arizona Republican John Rhodes, 64, announced a year ago that he would not seek another term as House G.O.P. leader, a behind-the-scenes battle has been taking place to determine his successor. The contenders: Robert Michel of Illinois and Guy Vander Jagt of Michigan. Though both men are Midwesterners and conservative Reaganites, their personalities and leadership styles are vastly different. Michel is "Mr. Inside," an affable master of backstage compromise and consensus. Vander Jagt is "Mr. Outside," a fiery champion of muscle and confrontation. The outcome could shape the way business is done in the House...
DIED. George Raft, 85, actor who epitomized the tightlipped, coolly menacing tough guy in such films as Each Dawn I Die (1939) and Mr. Ace (1946); of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A grade-school dropout who grew up in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, Raft took jobs as a prizefighter, a baseball player and an exhibition dancer before he was discovered by a director at Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurant and won the movie roles that led to his breakthrough in Scarface (1932). In his later years his career lagged, and he was barred from...
...connected with the show admit that Morning cannot really compete in the ratings unless it can expand into the time now reserved for Captain Kangaroo. "With a one-hour format, we'll always be the other guy, no matter what we do," laments Morning Executive Producer Elliot Bernstein. So far, however, no one has dared intrude upon the Captain, whose real name is Robert Keeshan. Captain Kangaroo draws even fewer viewers than Morning. But children's programming is popular with politicians and Washington broadcasting bureaucrats, and Keeshan has proved a powerful lobbyist on the upper floors...
...novels excep tional bestsellers. His popularity keeps growing because, in an epoch of prose experiments and self-conscious narrative, he has never forgotten to spin his yarn. "My books are meant to be read aloud," he says. "I'm a troubadour, a village taleteller. I'm the guy at the end of the bar or in the shadows of the campfire." In the past decade, he has become a kind of Woody Guthrie of fiction, a conservative populist who believes the myths he creates. And his audience rides with him, attracted to simple writing about simple times...