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...example, tempts guys with all the cool things they can have if they don't share their paycheck with a wife and kids: Italian shoes, fly-fishing vacations, babes galore. The masculine ideal of popular culture has long since ceased to be the man in the gray-flannel suit, trudging dutifully between office and home. It has become the millionaire hoop star with a stable of interchangeable gal pals, or the yuppie bachelor investing in his home wine cellar...
Although he shed his traditional checkered flannel shirt for a business suit, Alexander continued to stress the same themes he has used previously: energy, optimism and vision...
...will help Lamar," said Courchesne, who like Alexander was wearing a red and black plaid flannel shirt. "Let [the other candidates] fling the mud, [Alexander] will walk above them...
Approximately 300 people wearing the red flannel shirt that has become a symbol of the Alexander campaign waited to see the candidate in the auditorium of Pinkerton Academy...
...other way around. The fabulous fictional character "Lamar Alexander," for example--Republican presidential candidate, outsider, man of the people, scourge of Washington and everything in it--has been created out of Lamar Alexander, the former establishmentarian and Cabinet official, using little more than a smile and a red flannel shirt. You too can be a New You. All it takes is a change of costume, some prepackaged instant microwavable prejudices and a fresh zip code. Stir in a dollop of self-righteousness, bake for a day or less, and serve promptly...