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...With a broom sticking out of the rear window of his green Ford, David L. Boren drove across Oklahoma, promising to reform the government and "sweep the Old Guard" out of office if he were elected Governor. At the start of his campaign, Boren, 33, was scarcely known outside Oklahoma Baptist University, where he teaches government, and the state capitol, where he is a four-term representative. But his message caught on, and "Boren Broom Brigades" sprang up all over the state. Last week they swept the chubby, soft-spoken Rhodes scholar to a decisive win over Congressman Clem...
...powerful performance by Actress Linda Blair, playing a nubile 14-year-old girl who is destroyed by an inhumane system. It was harsh, realistic drama, and the climax was as raw as anything yet seen on network TV-a scene in a shower, where Linda is raped with a broom handle by her fellow inmates...
Both McSpadden and Boren stressed reform, McSpadden with the slogan "Honestly, there is a difference," and Boren by dubbing his organization "the Broom Brigade" and promising a clean sweep in November...
...adjectives for all this have been extravagant: new wine, fresh breeze, clean broom. They are an accurate White House measure. But what the President is doing is what most Americans have been doing all along...
...resounding success; country music seems to be getting popular in Cambridge at last. Geoff Muldaur is Maria's husband (or maybe ex-) and a holdover from the early-sixties folk scene; according to popular legend, when he was a teenager he hitchhiked from Boston to East Texas with a broom to sweep off the grave of an obscure early bluesman. In any event, he used to perform in a duo with Maria but since her recent success she seems to have left him to fend for himself. Watson is certainly worth going to see on his own, and Muldaur could...