Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rouser of the much-maligned love-it-or-leave-it Silent Majority of Americans who wished, against their mounting disquiet, to believe in their government's war. The struggle defined itself in cultural conflict. Alabama's Governor George Wallace had gone national as an angry outsider-populist and blue-collar backlasher. Agnew became a kind of insider Establishment populist, attacking "elites," meaning the media and intellectuals emerging as the liberal-minded new class of the information age. With the help of White House speechwriters Pat Buchanan and William Safire, Agnew developed a distinctive, jeering speech style that mixed some heavy...
Although she has not generally promoted her above-the-collar assets in the past, Pamela Lee, the Baywatch star and former Playboy model, is negotiating a deal to write a book. It's probably going to be co-written by friendly-biographer-to-the-stars Todd Gold, but, says Lee's publicist, it won't be an autobiography. A surf-rescue manual, perhaps...
...representing the district, which stretches from wealthy, progressive Harvard Square to the ethnic blue-collar sections of northwest Cambridge, O'Neill coined the phrase "all politics is local...
...There's always been a kind of division between working class folks and white collar folks. I think it remains to be seen if Mrs. Wolf will represent them as before. She claims she will. Let's hope she does," Russell says...
Wolf, 63, garnered support from the more liberal and wealthy areas of Cambridge. Galluccio, 29, drew votes from many of the same blue-collar residents who christened the careers of former U.S. House Speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill and state House Speaker Charles F. Flaherty...