Word: patting
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...Pat Buchanan is the happiest warrior of the 1996 campaign. His poor mouthing last week masked the fact that he has made more of the past six months than any other Republican hopeful besides Dole. While his other rivals have stalled or stumbled, Buchanan has become the favorite of many conservative activists, and is running statistically even with, or ahead of the much better-financed Gramm in several early states-at one-fourth Gramm's cost. There may not be enough of them to win, but Buchanan's supporters, a Dole operative acknowledges, are the "most intense" of any current...
...majority in each house on many abortion-related questions. And at least five of the most ardent of the newly elected abortion foes are women, blurring the battle lines of gender for the first time. "Their agenda is very clear. First, Newt Gingrich's hundred days; now, it's Pat Robertson's hundred days," said Democrat Nita Lowey of New York, who heads the House women's caucus. "We don't have the votes to stop any of this in the House...
...Pat Conroy's new novel Beach Music (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) jumps onto your lap like a large shaggy dog that will do anything to get your attention. It's friendly but still has teeth, like The Prince of Tides with its theme of family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music's Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends...
...when Conroy writes about the pleasures of eating boiled crab on tables covered with yesterday's newspaper, when he celebrates the low country's amphibious charms or confronts his mixed feelings about bubba culture, there are flashes of a gifted novelist. That would be the Pat Conroy who wrote The Water Is Wide and The Great Santini, not the maker of what is certain to be this summer's best-selling snack...
Republican presidential hopeful Pat Buchanansaid today that the U.S. should eliminate all foreign aid funding and use the money to cut taxes on American small business. Although President Clinton has called aRepublican proposal to reduce foreign aid spendingfrom $12.7 billion to $11.8 billion next year "isolationist," Buchanan is pushing the GOP to wipe out funding entirely. "The isolationist, anti-NAFTA constituency is one of three groups Buchanan is appealing to," says TIME's Laurence Barrett, "the others being the gun control people and the social conservatives. What he is trying to do is become the main alternative...