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Updike the Yankee and Wolfe the Virginian are gentlemen of carefully carved manners, but they represent competing schools of fiction. Updike's novels are introverted and literary, painted in subtle pastels. Wolfe, who once wrote a manifesto urging writers to rediscover the Thackeray tradition of sweeping social tomes, prefers raucous and sprawling journalistic narratives that spray-paint the world in bold colors. In 1965 Wolfe wrote a bratty piece calling the New Yorker "the most successful suburban women's magazine in the country." Updike, a fixture there since the '50s, has jousted at the man he calls "Tom, as distinguished...
...credit for that record-setting pace goes to Chambers, an energetic West Virginian with a Kalishnikov for a mouth who plays only doubles when he takes to the tennis court, an extension of his desire to make Cisco into a team. Chambers is relentlessly customer focused and prodigiously paranoid. When Cisco loses a big order, Chambers rings the buying CEO to ask how he could improve...
...state lost more than 20,000 mining jobs during Underwood's first term; he now hopes to use technology to improve the state government's efficiency and to diversify the economy. In this year's race, the grandfather of five peppered roadsides with campaign signs that played on West Virginian sentimentality, reading simply "Governor Cecil Underwood," while working to make an asset of his age: "Obviously," he quipped during the campaign, "I wouldn't be using it as a stepping stone to another...
Warner gained national celebrity when he married Elizabeth Taylor, but he has won more statewide elections than any Virginian this century. He faced his loudest opposition in the primary from conservatives who accused him of backstabbing the party when he didn't support its 1994 senatorial candidate, Oliver North. Warner said he put "principle before politics" and went on to wollop the challenger...
Despite a career spent in government, colleges and think tanks, Miller portrays himself as the pickup-driving, gun-owning Virginian whose onetime political benefactor betrayed the state's true Republican principles. "Two years ago," Miller tells Republican audiences, "John Warner stabbed this party in the back and now expects this party to raise him on its shoulders. That is wrong!" His fund-raising letter describes Warner as a Beltway insider more likely to be "dining at the elegant Palm restaurant in Washington with liberal TV 'journalist' Barbara Walters than testing his hunting rifle." That is Miller's way of reminding...