Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...moves to a small podium. "I'm George Bush" he says, "and I'd like your support." In a slow northeastern twang, he talks of issues and Iowa, occasionally pounding the podium and moving to the climax of his speech. "I'm optimistic about this country," he says. "I know we can turn things around." John Connally can go back to the ranch, Howard Baker and Bob Dole can go back to the Senate, Philip Crane and John Anderson can go back to the House and Ronald Reagan can go back to being Ronald Reagan--but "by gosh," George Bush...
Politically his background is just as checkered. Bush was the Republican's utility infielder, a ballplayer who has never held one position long enough to know it well or to be able to be judged by his performance at that slot. In a short six years, from 1971 to 1977, Bush was chief delegate to the United Nations, National Chairman of the G.O.P., chief envoy to Peking and director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The public does not seem to mind this grocery list of short-term administrative posts; Bush bills himslf as a leader "the country won't have...
...indulging his active libido in assorted hopeful chorines. He drives everyone hard, but himself the hardest ("To be on the wire is life; the rest is nothing"), waking up with Dexedrine and cigarettes--a tortured, uncompromising bastard. He is also a song-and-dance man, who doesn't know "where the bullshit ends and the truth begins." "I got insight into you, Gideon," says the actor playing the stand-up comic, who exists in the movie to say the following lines: "There's a deep-rooted fear of being conventional... the dreadful fear that you're ordinary--not special...
...goes on in the streets. Stop for a second and two U.S. ski team members walk by. They are celebrities and they flaunt it, waving at everyone, smiling at all the women. There is music blaring from the speed skating rink. There are scalpers everywhere. You just want to know everyone here-all the athletes and athlete lovers and students...
...crowd is very quiet at first, not sure whom to root for, but soon the Romanians start losing, winning the crowd's sympathy. Some real hockey fans know that if the Romanians win this game, the United States will be better off in the standings, so the support of the mainly American crowd is unanimous. But soon, even for the novice hockey fan, it's clear that this is not hockey USA style. The emotionless players barely pause after they score a goal. This quiets the back-slapping American crowd a bit, but even towards the third period, it still...