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Politicians will go to remarkable lengths to get the attention of voters, but Arizona's Democratic Governor Bruce Babbitt outdid even the most tireless baby kisser and hand shaker last week. From Sunday to Saturday, he bicycled across 397 miles of Iowa, pausing only for an emergency trip to Phoenix to attend the funeral of a legislative ally. "They told me this state was flat," mumbled the tall, lean presidential hopeful, as he and his wife Hattie forced their Schwinns up a series of long, steep hills. Following along in an air- conditioned camper, Babbitt's two sons good naturedly...
Avid bicyclists enter the Des Moines Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa, better known as "Ragbrai," to enjoy Iowa hospitality, 10 cents lemonade, and the excellent local bratwurst. Babbitt came to peddle himself to Iowa Democrats, whose caucuses are the first major test of the 1988 presidential campaign. The Arizona Governor, whose successes are little known east of the Rocky Mountain states, needs all the early recognition...
...effort to avoid writing pop ditties so catchy and lyrics so generic that they are instantly detachable from the show in which they appear: perhaps his only universally known song is Send In the Clowns, from 1973's A Little Night Music. He studied with the experimental composer Milton Babbitt and still prefers listening to serious work in the classical vein. Sondheim's West Side Story collaborator Leonard ( Bernstein has called him "compulsive and excessive," not least in his commitment to the idea that everything in a musical must strictly serve the task at hand. Even so, Sondheim's songbook...
...week by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman. Democrats and independents were asked about their familiarity with Cuomo and other political figures, their impression of them, and whom they would prefer right now as a Democratic presidential nominee.* The list included 1984 Presidential Candidates Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, as well as Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and the right-wing fringe candidate, Lyndon LaRouche...
...voice, his skill as a communicator, his ability to seize on symbolic issues. He has that most potent of political attributes, a personal magnetism that tugs at the public's attention. "I think at this stage Cuomo is the strongest of the contenders," says Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, a conservative Democrat who is a potential rival for the nomination. Some are waiting to see how Cuomo will position himself. "It's a question of which Cuomo he will try to sell," says one Democratic strategist. "His San Francisco speech in 1984 was really an eloquent defense of the past...