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Fuentes also displays his long-recognized penchant for experimental writing. The Campaign is an extraordinarily complex book, which operates on a number of narrative levels and employs a variety of expository styles. Varela's description of the Citizens' obsession with clocks is typical of Fuentes's beautiful prose, which transmutes fluidly from dialogue to description to polemic, but always operates within its broader thematic program...
...credit, George Bush has made a few attempts to dispel his image of old money elitism. In 1988, he claimed a penchant for pork rinds. (This populist snack, it turns out, has not been found in the White House in the past three years.) Last summer, he nominated Clarence Thomas, who grew up dirt poor, to the Supreme Court. And just recently, Bush was photographed buying pants at J.C. Penney, a shop not typically noted for its patrician clientele...
...former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan as Governor, a wave of revulsion would sweep business, tourism, conventions and jobs out of the state. Duke skillfully manipulated the politics of discontent, playing on resentment of quotas, welfare and Big Government. He railed against Edwards' liberalism and his penchant for gambling and womanizing and trading government jobs for campaign contributions. But in the end, the bumper sticker won the day: VOTE FOR THE CROOK: IT'S IMPORTANT. Concluding that electing a bigot would be too costly to a state in dire economic straits, voters gave Edwards 60% of the vote...
...Bath's penchant for secrecy has been frustrated by a feud with a former business partner, Bill White, who claims that Bath was a front man for CIA business operations. White contends that Bath has used his connections to the Bush family and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen to cloak the development of a lucrative array of offshore companies designed to move money and airplanes between the Middle East and Texas. White, an Annapolis graduate and former Navy fighter pilot, claims it was Bentsen's son Lan who suggested that White go into the real estate development business with Bath...
Indeed, Kerrey's past is impressive, and his penchant for self-deprecation makes him likeable--and extremely unusual for a politician. With term limitations becoming more popular (California's recently passed Proposition 140 shows the movement's strength) and anti-Washington feeling in general skyrocketing, Kerrey's story is a godsend for Joseph Rothstein, his '88 campaign consultant who's now on board for the presidential...