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Mondale will portray Ronald Reagan as an extremist and a flaky showman while casting himself as a seasoned, responsible realist. He accuses the President of trying to "flim-flam the American people" and "skate by the election" without confronting hard questions like the federal deficit. Mondale expects to introduce part of his own budget plan this month, possibly including a pledge that new tax revenues would be used to reduce the deficit, not fund social programs...
...ensured an upbeat, if not totally unified, Democratic Convention in San Francisco this week. Gary Hart, who said only hours before it was offered to Ferraro, that he would accept the V.P. spot, lost what hope he had of winning over disaffected Mondale delegates. Jesse Jackson, the master political showman, had been upstaged; he will find it hard now to depict the Democratic Party as closed to outsiders. As for being possibly overshadowed by speakers like New York Governor Mario Cuomo and Senator Edward Kennedy, Mondale could look forward instead to hearing their rhetorical gifts lavished on his selection...
...they smell blood, blood." The lawyer's voice lowered ominously: "There is no stopping them now. It is like sharks in a feeding frenzy." Pacing before the jury of six men and six women, wiry, emotive Defense Attorney Howard Weitzman was a consummate showman. Stolid in contrast, Assistant U.S. Attorney James P. Walsh meticulously outlined the Government's case with the help of flow charts and excerpts from recorded conversations printed on large posters. The defendant followed each statement intently, occasionally running a restless hand through his mane of silver hair. In the front row, his wife Cristina...
...public did not fall in love with Michael Jackson for his talents as a songwriter, musician or innovator [SHOW BUSINESS, March 19]. They fell in love with Jackson the dancer, the showman, the sexy teen idol, the ultimate entertainer...
...earth where Manhattan's Sixth Avenue Elevated fences off 50th and 51st Streets-the Radio City Music Hall of Rockefeller Center. Wags had already dubbed the locale of the new theatre, whose 6,200 seats make it the world's largest, the "Rothafeller" Center, for celebrated Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel was to produce this week a monster variety bill twice daily...