Word: drawl
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...political humor is popular culture, which they may think is the only thing the electorate knows or cares about. So Dan Quayle hates Murphy Brown. Bush wants families to be "more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons." Clinton, who does a better impression of Bush's prissy drawl than he does of Elvis, promotes his campaign with the unwipe-offable grin of a pitchman on a late-night infomercial. Newt Gingrich calls the Democrats' family-values policy the "Woody Allen plank...
...some aides complained that the speech was too long, the candidate defended it by claiming that it had fewer words than Michael Dukakis' 1988 oration. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor's text was shorter, and his lightning-fast diction made his delivery time shorter still. In his own laid-back drawl, Clinton took about 55 minutes to deliver his address. Recalling the fiasco of Clinton's interminable 1988 speech, his verbosity last week seemed on the verge of losing his audience, but a powerful delivery and some surefire applause lines saved...
Even without Brooks, the country sound has upset the cosmopolitan assumptions of Los Angeles and New York City, which said drawl-and-twang music would never acquire a mass audience. Country music was, after all, the sort of rube industry that made a vamp out of the cowboy by putting him in rhinestones and that churned out corn pone-ography like TV's Hee Haw, the show where banjo pickers and celebrity fiddlers would pop out of a field to joke about henpecked husbands and lazy cousins. Worse, the last time country flashed across the national consciousness, it was propelled...
...once got accused of plagiarism. Fortunately, I hadn't done anything wrong that time. But I can still hear my TF's Southern drawl...
Chaos reigns. Then Bob Strauss, the party's guru in chief, comes onto the podium. For President, he intones in a syrupy drawl, we must nominate a great American and my fellow Texan -- George Bush. During the stunned silence that follows, Strauss adds a cunning hook: For Vice President, we should select one of our young Democratic chargers, someone whose depth and experience compare favorably with Quayle's lack of same. American voters like to diffuse authority and have scant respect for Quayle. The Democratic ticket will...