Word: stetson
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...think it will certainly cause all of us tobe cautious about any references that could bemisinterpreted," said Willis J. Stetson Jr.,director of admissions at the University ofPennsylvania. "We would not want to say anythingthat we don't want to see as a headline in The NewYork Times...
...country headliner, Brooks encapsulates most of the / complexities of the baby boomers. He was raised in an Oklahoma City suburb, where he listened to Kiss and Queen, and graduated from Oklahoma State, where he was a middling jock and an advertising major. He hides his receding hairline under his Stetson, and once said, "I'd rather be like Schwarzenegger -- perfect teeth, perfect body, full head of hair." He can be a pop nostalgist who croons old Billy Joel songs, a country nostalgist who traces his lineage to the backwoodsy George Jones, or a rock nostalgist who remembers what the back...
...that stereotypical singer- songwriter. Brooks pulverizes his songs in performance, putting each one across as if it were Born to Run. He has the brass of Billy Joel but a sweetness of temper that keeps him on the south side of overbearing. All that, and a beaver felt Stetson (size 7 5/8) that makes him look dorky. Deliberately, one assumes...
...Confederate sword in his hand and a white Stetson hat on his head, Pat Buchanan stands in front of the Alamo. "Take a look behind me," the Republican challenger tells the friendly crowd. "Those fellows put Texas first. They put their own freedom first. They put their own families first, and they were willing to stand up and fight and die for it." Buchanan's own candidacy may face a similar fate, but he hopes his quixotic battle against George Bush will help win the war for the soul of the Republican Party...
...people," repeats Hidehisa Mori, 29. Mori, who says he grew up watching dubbed Clint Eastwood and John Wayne movies, proudly tugs at his black Stetson and sticks his thumbs over his rattlesnake-buckle belt. Only the Japanese-English dictionary sticking out of his shirt pocket spoils a perfect Marlboro-man look...