Word: heartlands
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...such congenial collaborations and astonishments: Nelson with Sinead O'Connor on Peter Gabriel's anthem of tentative renewal, Don't Give Up; Nelson and Bonnie Raitt making Getting Over You into a dialogue of broken hearts; Dylan co-writing and singing with Nelson on a fine new song, Heartland, which has the aura and impact of a Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl ballad; Nelson singing on his own, cutting loose on a joyous Willie Dixon blues and having a great time visiting Simon's Graceland...
...believer in the importance -- perhaps the primacy -- of image, metaphor, style. And an ace manipulator of media, selling his symbols directly to the people, on TV, without the interference of pesky journalists. It all makes for a wondrous '90s blend of show biz and politics, of Hollywood and Heartland...
Already the domestic turkeys had experienced their first and only taste of flight, on their way from America's Heartland to the island of Martha's Vineyard, where Baker and her husband R.W. run their Pilot Hill Farm...
...tours, which will grow to seven this Monday, were an enormous success. They drew an unsubtle contrast between the patrician Bush's alleged loss of contact with heartland America and the Clinton-Gore close-to-the- people pitch. The journeys cemented the relationship between the candidates and their wives; as Tipper Gore put it, "We were able to tell stories and get to know each other." They also drew huge and enthusiastic crowds, pumped up partly by local journalists who could not afford to fly on a campaign plane but eagerly seized on a rare chance to follow candidates around...
Harvard clearly has the will to win, but that's not going to make today's battle in the heartland of New Jersey any easier...