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...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...
...those who aren't too modest about the subject, T-shirts advocate safe sex and the wonders of rubbers. It's toooo biiiig," says one. Another shirt says. "See Dick and Jane. See Dick go. See Jane grow. Don't Be a Dick." Below that warning, Dick and Jane grin broadly, clutching condom wrappers in their little stick fingers. Emergency condoms are provided in the neck label...
...wanders over to the T-shirts, his female companion, with a sinister grin, asks loudly, "Where are the petite ones...
...they had practiced dance steps, shopped for formals, fretted about hairstyles and what on earth to say to their partners. Now the Big City band was pumping up the volume, and the whole ballroom was beginning to shake. Brandon Fitch, wearing a pinstripe suit and an ear-to-ear grin, shimmied with a high-stepping blond. Daphne Moss, sporting a floral dress and white corsage, delighted her dad by letting him cut in. The usually quiet Kevin Buchberger leaped onto the dance floor and flat-out boogied for the first time in his life, while Kevin Namkoong grabbed an electric...
...that thrust plowing into power politics. In 1948 Harry Truman headed for Dexter, Iowa, where 100,000 people had come to witness the meet. Truman gave the 80th Congress hell, delightedly kicked some newly turned clods of earth as if they were Republicans, and came away with a huge grin, convinced that the reception he got from the dirt farmers meant he would beat Tom Dewey, who had snubbed the plowmen. From then on the plow meet became a must campaign stop for aspiring Presidents...