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...built a $250 million empire in oil, gas, ranching, banking and communications. He boasts that his business endeavors have created jobs for 100,000 Texans. "I'm a survivor of the oil patch," he tells crowds. "Rebuilding is my purpose. Let's make Texas great again." On the stump at tamale feeds and rodeos, the candidate embellishes his message, bear-hugging his way through crowds, pecking women on the cheek and grabbing a guitar to warble a Mexican ballad. "Look him in the eyes, and you have to trust him," says Tyler motel clerk Boris Johnson. "There's nothing phony...
Regardless of whom it helps, California's size and links to Hollywood will change the nature of the early primary season. No longer will the candidate being interrogated by an Iowa farmer hold the nation's attention. Stump speeches to Iowa heartlanders and New Hampshire yankees might be more charming, but Morgan Fairchild introducing a candidate at the Century Plaza will certainly be glitzier...
Under Japan's constituency system, members of the same party often run against each other in the same district. Unable to campaign on different platforms, the candidates stump on their ability to bring special benefits like new roads and factories to their towns. Nisei have a distinct advantage because they inherit the so-called three bans: jiban (constituency), kanban (name or recognition) and kaban (suitcase or campaign chest); they don't have to spend their early careers building these...
...Catskills, in a manner much indebted to Claude Lorrain: peaceful arcadian vistas with the silver glint of lakes under evening skies. Church's valediction to his dead master, To the Memory of Cole, 1848, with its rose-wreathed cross on a mountainside between two emblems -- the tree stump (death) and the evergreens (posthumous fame) -- carries the Claudean stereotype into America. The billows of pink and white cloud on its far horizon predict the grand effects that Church's later work would seek as it moved from Claude to a closer model, Turner...
...power. Since winning the nomination of the United Nicaraguan Opposition (U.N.O.) coalition last September, she has managed to improve on a thoroughly inept start. But her campaign still lacks both substance and imagination. Dona Violeta does not discuss issues. She appears. She smiles. She presses flesh. She departs. Her stump speeches are long on teary references to her late husband and short on almost everything else...