Word: montauk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issues. To popularize the rather little-known state legislator as "a living, breathing being," Deardourff filmed him riding in one of his lobster boats, piloting his plane and speaking on the floor of the state assembly. Other ads present a relaxed Duryea in the study of his home in Montauk, Long Island, talking about crime, taxes, inflation and education...
...keep going until you hit Montauk Point, the eastern tip of the island, windswept home of fishermen and lobstermen and a charming stone lighthouse that somehow never managed to keep scores of Atlantic clippers away from the homicidal rocks off the coast. Montauk is also the home of Perry Duryea, who wants very much to be governor of the state, and who may well get his wish quite soon...
...finally, this year, the Republican gubernatorial nomination. People like him, and many will vote for him--some because he likes the death penalty, some because he favors tax reform, many because he just looks so much like a governor, a stately, silver-maned Millard Fillmore-clone. Back in Montauk, where the fishermen and duck farmers and county lawyers know him best, they will vote for him because they know what Perry is all about. Like so many of the folks back home, Perry hates The City...
...KICKER, of course, is that this moderate, suburban, new-breed Republican Perry Duryea does not exist. Duryea's sentiments are about as suburban-sophisticated as those of the feed dealer in upstate Callicoon; back home in Montauk, where the folks care less about Medicaid funding and mass transit than whether the state will subsidize a new trawler dock, Duryea has survived only by aggressive, unrelenting provincialism...
...vote for one of the candidates instead of simply against one. But right now Duryea still keeps a firm grip on his 5-per-cent lead in the polls, and the governor still spends most of his time struggling against his own misanthropic image. And so out in Montauk, where Perry's people are readying the boats for a winter season of dark surf and sharp winds and streaming silver fish too small to catch, the mood is light despite the weather. In early November, after all, the fluke start running, and it looks like a good season...