Word: southern
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...burden, but not because he and Dole may be buried in a landslide. In actively courting minority voters--a sideshow wholly separate from Dole's effort--Kemp has set himself against recent Republican history. "All too often in the past," Kemp said not long ago, Republicans have "had that Southern strategy that said we want to go after the white vote and had better not try to get black votes because it might lose those white votes. That is shameful." That it is. But Kemp's stance could cost him dearly in the 2000 primaries, where the increasingly conservative G.O.P...
Naturally, these remarkable results have created a great buzz. Word of mouth is big in some circles in Southern California, for example, where washboard abs and buns of steel are practically residency requirements. National weight-loss clinics, including Jenny Craig and Nutri/System, are scrambling to work Redux into their programs. Last week Sheldon Levine, a New Jersey diet doctor, began a high-profile nationwide publicity campaign to flog his new book, The Redux Revolution (Morrow; $20), a 222-page paean to what is being promoted as "the most important weight-loss discovery of the century...
...Seattle. Around the University were erected--I recall from the center field of countless softball games in the local summer leagues that played on diamonds squinched between warehouses and railway tracks--great grain elevators, bearing different emblems--Cargill, General Mills, Ceresota--recalling the cathedral-church of Albi in Southern France...
...hands. But Dole's team had astutely built a fire wall in South Carolina. Prudently preparing for the danger they didn't expect but were in fact facing after New Hampshire, they had earlier recruited the players, like former Governor Caroll Campbell, who would on March 2 deliver the Southern state everyone deemed critical to capturing the entire region. After South Carolina, the rest of the primary march was anticlimactic. Grand plans were hatched for the months before the August convention. The nominee-presumptive would preside over national-issues forums to demonstrate seriousness of purpose. A running mate and some...
...Jeff Foxworthy Show, which premiered last season on ABC and is moving to NBC, was rebuilt during six weeks this summer. No longer a fish out of water in the Midwest, the Southern comic will find himself living near Atlanta. This time he gets a new wife and potential for more conflict in the form of a female boss...