Word: bubba
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President Clinton has been compared to a lot of different people. His admirers liken his appeal to John F. Kennedy '40. His opponents see in his background and his performance Jimmy Carter. Pretentious Northerners sometimes view him as a smarter version of the Southern "Bubba." And of course, music-lovers think he looks like a poor man's Elvis. On evaluating his first year in office, I have concluded that he is none of these. In fact, Clinton is the real-life incarnation of the Energizer Bunny...
Invoking privilege of any sort goes against the picture of the down-home Arkansan whose natural populist tendencies served him well in the campaign. His Bubba barber of 17 years, his off-the-rack suits, the Governor's mansion with its tattered volleyball net -- these have given way to a Belgian-born hair stylist, Armani jackets and a private jogging track...
Bill Clinton called a radio host during the New York primary, announcing "This is Bubba." The name stuck. Next month the first issue of Bubba magazine (written in Manhattan by non-Bubbas, natch) will appear. Sample wisdom: Hillary's no Bubbette, but be cool -- her husband controls the bombs. Besides, the First Mom is genuine. Just check out her Tammy Faye lashes...
...wonderful features compete for attention against one another--with no one or two taking precedence over the others. There are those squinty little eyes, all baggy from the rigors of the campaign and too many nights up late jamming on "Arsenio." There's that Leno-esque chin, those pinched Bubba cheeks, the little snubbed nose and that tousled mass of gray hair that just seems to cry out for Grecian formula. Just where do you start with Bill Clinton...
...candidate shook hands -- hundreds of them -- and played a four-bar break on the saxophone with the Dovells, a local 1960s group. But Clinton could not resist speaking for five minutes. Before leaving the raceway, Clinton posed in the cold rain with a two-year-old trotter named Bubba Clinton, who had won a race earlier that week at the long-shot odds of 37 to 1. Asked what the horse had told him, Clinton said, "Just run hard...