Word: crowd
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Straggling back from Tommy's or Noch's, the pizza lovers munch and mingle with the study group crowd...
Prestifilippo especially drew the attention of the Lynah crowd. The Big Red Band had prepared "No Smoking" style signs, substituting Prestifilippo's mugshot for the cigarette...
...McCain had attacked them and not just their nominal leaders. Most voters never saw the full text; they heard only the parts of the speech where McCain named names and threw fire bombs. Evangelicals have never been a monolithic group; many of them have their differences with the Robertson crowd and are far more tolerant than the Bob Jones wing. And yet many took McCain's salvo personally, as an attack on their convictions and their role in the Republican coalition. Bush's 9-point margin in Virginia the next day owed a lot to the fact that Christian conservatives...
This loneliness in a crowd was part of the Bradley mystique. Sheathed in bubble wrap so that nothing touched him, Bradley successfully fashioned himself an uncompromising outsider. Measured against political blue bloods like the son of a President, this son of a town banker so crippled by arthritis he had to be dressed in the morning looked like a character out of Horatio Alger. Bradley didn't cosset himself in a limo but drove his own battered Oldsmobile, wore the same no-designer tie day after day and had shoes so worn that a Congressman said someone should steal them...
...with his chin tugging his face down and his eyebrows perpetually raised. It was hard not to get Bradley fatigue in the middle of an event. Senator Paul Wellstone, the feisty Minnesota liberal so bouncy he seemed about to leap into Bradley's arms, would work the crowd into a lather only to have Bradley take the podium and douse the room with ice water. Occasionally he was the Pied Piper in a room full of children, but on a visit to a school gym last month, even that gift failed him: he went 2 for 9 shooting baskets...