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Surface perceptions have become increasingly important in the face of a more fluid electorate. Party identification has fallen steadily in the past twenty years and ticket splitting is no longer regarded as a sin. In order to win, a candidate must attract a majority of the independent voters who do not identify strongly with either of the major parties. These are the hard sell voters who can often be swayed, in the end, by skillful image-making...
Even in a state that has legalized sin, Conforte, 58, falls into a special category. He set up shop in the 1950s, building the Mustang Ranch outside Reno into Nevada's biggest bordello. Over the years, Conforte has been linked to political payoffs, arson and murder. In the 1960s he served time for attempted extortion and tax evasion. In 1980 he faced five years in federal prison for a conviction in another tax case. He was also up on a state charge of bribery, and the local D.A. was talking about seeking a life sentence for Conforte...
...perched on windowsills. A law student from California had come to Tulsa for the event; one man had driven down from Washington State. Most of the nearly 200 people in the audience, however, were Oklahoma churchgoers, some of whom clutched Bibles to check out passages on sex and sin referred to by the speakers...
...times, White's struggle over what American literature and values should be like took comic forms. After Stuart Little had appeared, the reactions at The New Yorker were mixed. Harold Ross shouted at White for saying that the mouse was born, not adopted. White had committed the mortal sin of using the wrong word. Then, reports White...
...they've been doing in Cambridge almost since the Second World War. And while today's students are distinctly better groomed than they were in the Sixties and early Seventies, they're still determinedly dressed down, since looking as though you're trying too hard is still a cardinal sin...