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...precedent, clearly, is Ralph Lauren. Lauren brilliantly created a multibillion-dollar kingdom by exploiting middle-class Americans' yearning for a patrician past they never had. As his empire grew, his vision stayed focused. No one admires the Polo king's achievement more than Karan, whose great ambition seems to be to repeat his success...
Unlike his late father Robert, a patrician Little Rock lawyer with a lanky frame, Lindsey is short (he looks like a miniature version of British Prime Minister John Major) and so unassuming that even journalists in Little Rock misunderstood his role. "I thought for a long time that he was just Clinton's gofer, but it's obvious he's much more than that," says John Brummett, political editor at the Arkansas Times. In fact, Lindsey is the outside, practical manifestation of Clinton's political anima, a campaign unto himself: he took the competing opinions of the staff to Clinton...
...kinder and gentler, that he would be a "hands on" President. The contrast with laid-back Ronnie and his scandals was never very subtle. The shallow Hollywood glitz, which was useful for regaining the White House from Jimmy Carter, would be replaced by solid Republican virtues now that patrician George was in the Oval Office. The simpleminded rhetoric about an evil empire would yield to more refined management of foreign policy under the former director of the CIA. Bush, a diplomat at the U.N. and in China, was not like Reagan, who before he turned 50 had been abroad only...
...piece of George Bush's soul has been crushed. He will hide it behind his patrician grace in his season of defeat. Rejected by the American people, a life's ambition cut short, a political finale cast in defeat -- a heavy burden even for a man of Bush's discipline. Yet this cruel ritual is the heart of democracy...
...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...