Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vice-presidential candidate in a bind. Eight presidential elections ago, a young Republican Senator named Richard Nixon went on TV to justify his receipt of political donations ? and of a cocker spaniel named Checkers. Nixon, of course, faced only the camera, not 200 reporters, and he had a script. With Ferraro, every thing is different, special, more consequential. The stakes are higher because whatever happens to Ferraro happens to a pioneer, a historic figure. Mondale edged close to a complaint about the intense public focus last week. "It may have occurred in the past," he said, "that when...
...roll call proceeded predictably-votes for Reagan and Bush were cast on the same ballot-the President and Bush were joined in the Reagans' suite by their wives. The Missouri delegation's vote boosted the uncontested ticket over the top just 45 min. later than the script said it would. Ever ready with a one-liner, Reagan quipped, "We've been sweating this...
...script is plotted down to the hour, computers are spinning out electoral-vote permutations, in-house pollsters are tracking every nuance of the electorate's mood. Yet for all the number crunching and tactical machinations, the Republicans' re-election strategy is not conceptually elaborate: in essence, it consists of two words?Ronald Reagan. The President's men have good reason to believe they can win simply by flying him to the right places at the right times and letting him wow the voters...
...said a woman with a tot on her hip, "but I don't think Granny can get in this way." Granny went round by the aisle, and people stood up to let her in. Well into the show, when Dentist Tucker as Father Martin emoted an illness the script saddled him with, Granny said, "I don't get it. Last year Father Martin fainted. This year he just blacks out. It was better having him faint...
...upstairs. One day Miles' computer, Edgar, hears Madeline playing. It is love at first byte. The machine composes a romantic duet, the two "neighbors" make beautiful music together, and Madeline assumes Miles is the tune's author. This is a gently schizophrenic movie: Rusty Lemorande's script is as mild as Miles; the direction, by MTV Whiz Steve Barren (Billie Jean), often percolates as busily as Edgar in high dudgeon. Still, Von Dohlen is a find, with easy, exquisite comic timing; and Edgar, the cybernetic Cyrano, is the most endearingly neurotic bundle of software since...