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MASTERS OF THE MATRIX.
Louis Menand discusses the larger issues of Presidential stagecraft
"It was TV more than anything else that turned the tide," John F. Kennedy said on November 12, 1960, four days after his election to the presidency. He was referring to the four televised debates between him and Richard Nixon, broadcast earlier that fall. Television debates are now nearly an official rite of passage in a politician's progress to the presidency. Holding a presidential election today without a television debate would seem almost undemocratic, as though voters were being cheated by the omission of some relevant test, some necessary submission to mass scrutiny.
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- Author dresses up Rose Kennedy image
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times March 28, 1986 700+ words
...Robert Kennedy died, Mrs. Kennedy made it clear that Ted, whom...said. The book lists Mrs. Kennedy's eccentricities, but Gibson says the book will boost her image. "She hasn't had much exposure...been written has made Mr. Kennedy look like "an austere taskmaster...
- If JFK had lived much longer he'd have been puffy, poxy, jumpy and incontinent;...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) November 22, 2003 700+ words
...surviving element of the once-potent "Kennedy magic" is the stationing of Maria Shriver...life to it in the first place. John F. Kennedy and King Arthur both died young, and...of early untreated venereal infection, Kennedy's back-brace for his crippling spinal...
- Kennedy tragedy: Image that touched the world.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) July 19, 1999 700+ words
...lasting memory of John F Kennedy Junior is of him as...father President John F Kennedy in November 1963. The image of the little boy in...of the most iconic images of the post-war era...the 38-year-old Kennedy as it did his father...
- Rebel with a cause; Behind Nigel Kennedy's unclassical image is a campaigner...
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Maddocks, Fiona September 26, 2002 700+ words
...always been central to the Kennedy phenomenon (the name Nigel...Controller John Drummond when Kennedy was soloist in Berg's Violin...his mentor, Menuhin, though Kennedy's time there was not especially...him as "affecting a populist image and manner" as if accusing...
- GFT USA appoints Kennedy VP for marketing, image. (William Kennedy; apparel...
- Magazine article from: WWD August 9, 1989 700+ words
GFT USA APPOINTS KENNEDY VP FOR MARKETING, IMAGE NEW YORK -- William Kennedy has been appointed vice president for marketing...as senior vice president for marketing and image. Kennedy was vice president for the apparel division and...
- Kennedy worked to mend image.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Mulvihill, Maggie Battenfeld, Joe January 2, 1998 700+ words
...recent weeks, Michael Kennedy had started down the...reshaping his public image and erasing the tarnish...reported in November that Kennedy was consulting with...Neill, to revamp his image. The firm also represented Kennedy's company, Citizens...
- 1960: the first mass media election: the new medium of television played a...
- Magazine article from: New York Times Upfront Davey, Monica October 6, 2008 700+ words
...September 1960: John F. Kennedy, the tanned, photogenic...Television is all about image, not substance," Sabato says, adding, "Kennedy was elected based largely...more likely to think Kennedy came out on top. TV...indelible the television images had been--even to...
- President's Day.(Books)(Shooting Kennedy: JFK and the Culture of Images)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Hoberman, J. January 1, 2004 700+ words
...assortment of fellow images. Lubin locates photographs...the Kennedys and the Kennedy assassination among the...further placing these images in the context of a visual...ahistoric, Shooting Kennedy is a book that, Lubin...begin. The imaginary image of sniper Lee Harvey...
