Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many other experiences. A woman in Brownsville, so recent an arrival in the U.S. that she needs a Spanish interpreter in court, is convicted of trying to influence the result of a local election with a $20 bribe. In Matamoros, where posters from last summer's presidential campaign still crowd the walls, elections are invested with fewer moral, if not legal, expectations. Perhaps the single most striking statement to emerge during the campaign was the call by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party and the eventual victor, for honest voting and an honest count...
Chet Atkins, on a stage in the bright sunshine of Jackson, Tenn., is warming up the crowd. He stands with Pat Boone in front of the Old Country Store in Casey Jones Village, named for the famous train engineer who lived there at the turn of the century. Atkins, the genius of American country guitar, is singing now: "Would Jesus wear a Rolex...
...Bush's speech has a chameleon quality. One day during a tour through central Illinois farmland, Bush and his wife Barbara rode in a bus with the country singers Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle and Peggy Sue, all sisters. At a stop in the town of Wenona, Bush told the crowd that the three sisters had been giving a country concert in the bus, and "I thought I'd died and gone to heaven." George Bush, out of Kennebunkport and Houston, out of Andover and Yale, had a little mountain twang in his voice when he said it, standing in twill...
...styles of thought, as if seeking his own authenticity. Or perhaps fleeing it. Bush used to be a moderate Republican. Now, inheriting the Reagan legacy, he is constrained to run as a right-winger. He trumpets right-wing "values" -- and panders unapologetically to the Know-Nothing instincts in the crowd, but one listens to him always with a smudge of doubt: Does he really believe that...
...fresh morning on a farm in Idalou, in the flatlands of West Texas, with an ashy-silver half-plate moon in the blue sky, the rally crowd was being warmed up by Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, a charismatic populist with a talent for comic fulmination. Dan Quayle, said Hightower, is so dumb he "thinks Cheerios are doughnut seeds." And: "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drilling rights on George Bush's head...