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...carrying member of their generation. Using language appropriated from John Kennedy and reworked by Pollster Pat Caddell, Biden exhorts those from their 20s to their 40s to trade up from dreary materialism to exhilarating activism. "The cynics believe that my generation has forgotten," he says in one of his stump speeches. "They believe that the ideals and compassion and conviction to change the world that marked our youth is now nothing but a long-faded wisp of adolescence . . . But they have misjudged us." By no coincidence, the group that he implores "to put our own stamp on the face...
...this performance has given her the urge to get away for a while; after playing a woman accused of sleeping with a black, Mary thinks some of her Knoxville neighbors have started to harbor the same suspicion about her. Before long, Mary gives Al all of her late husband Stump's golfing togs, packs him into her Mercury and takes off for Florida...
...many blank pages, or pages with the same letter, or random words about random words, Philip Glass on paper, ink as an automatic act, meta-words, that refer back to their physical Existence as the orgasmic climactic union of ink and processed tree stump...
...apart from a crowd of Harvard seniors. The majority might trust an intelligent audience not to be brainwashed. We think we can discount the possibility of the Class Day crowd abandoning Tercentenary Theater en masse for a round of New Hampshire campaigning. If Dukakis launches into a hackneyed stump speech, then he will lose more votes than a rousing performance will ever earn...
...fund raiser, keyed up about his speech, Joe Kennedy repeats his political mantra to himself: "Democracy, opportunity, America . . ." His navy gabardine campaign suit is shiny by now from overuse on the trail. "Democracy, opportunity, America . . ." At a luncheon for 250 elderly people, the tousled candidate gives his stump speech in a booming voice, chopping the air in disjointed fashion, stressing almost every word. His speeches feel like workouts. Then Kennedy bounds from the podium. No cheek goes unkissed...