Word: californianism
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...year 1996 (that's right, three years from now) and then let loose to do battle in the utopian year 2032. In spite of this promisingly elaborate premise, the filmmakers forsake any attempt at an original or engaging story in favor of a tiresome series of jabs at flakey Californian political correctness...
...Southern Californian transplant, this is the LA--can you forgive yourself if you miss the stunning Griffith Observatory sciences?--that is a sure cure for this cold and dreary season. With James Dean and Mr. Howell from Gilligan's Island...
...range that if a dog crosses your property, you can shoot it. That is how it's always been -- dogs can threaten the livestock, or the tulips, so you can shoot 'em. This spelled trouble near the leathery Colorado town of Durango last month after the Bakers, a large Californian family, moved in next to an old ranch. The Californians' golden retriever ventured onto the ranch property and ate a couple of chickens. The Californians duly apologized, but the ranchers remained incensed. And soon after, when the dog strayed across again, sure enough, the ranchers shot it. The Californians wrote...
...sailed in all weathers; at his ranch in Texas (the Texas White House, as it was known), Lyndon Johnson hunted deer; Richard Nixon spent weeks every summer at his large house by the Pacific in San Clemente (or the Western White House, as it was known) indulging in Californian luxuriance; Ronald Reagan visited his ranch in California faithfully each August, where he rode and cleared brush and chopped wood; in Kennebunkport, George Bush raced around in his cigarette boat and tended his East Coast patrician roots. When some of these Presidents spent many weeks away from Washington at these August...
...basis. Are there any more appealing images of Kennedy than those of him sailing, his hair tousled? At San Clemente, Nixon reminded the country that he was a poor boy who had made good and -- lest his native state forget it in the 1972 election -- that he was a Californian. Ronald Reagan -- code name "Rawhide" -- could not possibly have reinforced his image as a mythic cowboy any better than by riding at his "ranch." Bush used his powerboat, of course, to defuse accusations of wimpiness. Lacking a summer White House, Clinton misses the opportunity to burn such images into...