Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to win in his race against two-term Governor James Thompson? The Republican incumbent dropped behind Stevenson in the spring; a Chicago Tribune survey published last week puts Thompson ahead once again, 48% to 40%. It is the toughest race ever for two candidates who harbor presidential ambitions...
...seek a third Senate term, mainly pounds away at one potent issue: the flaccid economy. In a detailed, 200-page campaign exegesis, he proposes luring pension-fund investments to Illinois and encouraging high-tech industries. During a debate earlier this month that rapidly turned acrimonious, he accused Thompson of presiding over the worst economic decline in the U.S., citing the state's 12.2% unemployment rate and soaring debt. Stevenson, who later accused the Governor of "subterfuge and deception" to conceal his failures, tried to justify the snappish tone: "I'm portrayed as bland and dull. As a tactical...
Their disparate styles figure prominently in a campaign between two political moderates. The Governor, 46, seems to be much that Stevenson is not: big and bluff, and happy to chat with anyone. Thompson, with $4 million in campaign funds (to $1.3 million for Stevenson), worked the crowd at Chicago's Labor Day Parade, wearing a hard hat and a Chicago Bulls windbreaker. "We had 4,000 Thompson balloons," he said. "We gave out stickers to everyone. There were only four Adlai hats and two pins-and Adlai didn't see them because he spent the day with...
...been a bricklayer, I would have been a fantastic bricklayer." No question, she is a fantastic singer. Not trained, not technical, she has a clear tone and a dramatic delivery that drives every song to the limit. Others may be more polished, but none can surpass her punch. Linda Thompson may be rock's best woman singer...
That song, quiet, terrifying and seductive, is like a lullaby of doom, but it has the flavor of an old ballad. Indeed, Thompson's apprenticeship as part of the seminal English folk-rock band Fairport Convention provides a kind of melodic continuity with the past. "Folk doesn't mean anything any more," he says. "Our strongest roots are in British and Celtic traditional music. In terms of song structure, we come out of the Scottish ballad form more than anything else. But what we play is rock and roll." Thompson, son of a Scotland Yard detective who played...