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...SISSY RICH BOY and INTENSELY MEDIOCRE. Conservative Columnist George Will argued that Quayle desperately needed a "stature transfusion" and even set a deadline: by Labor Day the candidate should "be good or be gone" from the ticket. The Des Moines Register, a prominent editorial voice in the usually Republican heartland, called on Bush to drop Quayle. The New York Times said, "If Mr. Bush wanted someone against whom he could brightly shine, he could hardly have made a better choice." David Hill, a Houston-based G.O.P. ! pollster, called Quayle's standing "a source of enormous frustration to Republicans. There...
...from the Gulf. But this year its larger current swung north to Hudson Bay, its lesser branch south to Mexico, leaving the midlands arid and hot. Now, after nearly three months of deprivation, the great Missouri-Mississippi watershed has fused into a giant arc of aching thirst. The heartland bower of James Whitcomb Riley and Edgar Lee Masters, of Indiana and Illinois, has received less than half the normal spring rainfall. The soft night lawns are brown crackling grist. The old swimming holes have evaporated...
DEEP in the nation's heartland, Overland Park, Kansas to be exact, there lurks a raging beast. A man who speaks up when other boxers only quake in fear. A man who openly challenges Mike Tyson, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world...
This week a Dirty Dancing concert revue comes to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, with a brace of nostalgically inclined singers and a bevy of pelvicly primed dancers. After eight shows at Radio City, the concert will head out to 65 cities in the heartland. "How many people here under 20?" shouts Bill Medley, once a Righteous Brother and now the revue's closing act, before jumping into (I've Had) The Time of My Life, his hit theme from the movie. His question gets a good roar from the crowd. "How many over 20?" Another roar. The show...
Without Reagan to subsume them all into one fold, Republicans show signs of splintering into four of their old tribes: the country-club and Wall Street establishment, the Main Street heartland conservatives, the Religious Right and the fervent disciples of supply side. Reagan in 1984 could be claimed "one of us" by all of these groups. But this time, each has its own standard-bearer: Bush, Dole, Robertson or Kemp...