Word: flannels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush to the red-meat conservative voters who dominate the G.O.P.'s crucial early contests. As a result, Alexander has shifted sharply to the right on issues of special interest to conservatives-from abortion to affirmative action. He announced his candidacy last week wearing the red-and-black plaid flannel shirt that became his trademark when he walked 1,022 miles across Tennessee during his first successful campaign for Governor, in 1978. And over the summer, he drove his red Ford Explorer 8,500 miles across the country, meeting with typical Americans, often staying up late to discuss their concerns...
...Quayle ankled the 1996 race I started to wonder if maybe I hadn't underrated the man. Anyone who chooses to spend 1995 at home in Indiana enjoying family life rather than preening, fawning, blithering, truckling and marketing flannel-mouthed pieties while living in motel rooms with burnt-orange carpeting is a man with the good taste and common sense we want in a President...
...scene resembles that in many a law-school classroom: two dozen earnest third-year students in jeans and flannel shirts sit at desks, their notebooks open in front of them. Behind the podium where assistant professor Lynne Marie Kohm stands, a sign on the blackboard advertises a bar-exam cram course. But the discussion of the topic at hand, divorce, is not limited to the standard legalisms of family law-custody, property, visitation. Instead, the students here at the Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Virginia, return, again and again, to the spiritual consequences for parents and children...
Alexander's position contains so much doublespeak, one suspects that flannel shirt is intended to obscure not just his Washington-insider status but also his pro-choice heart. Not liking abortion is his claim to being pro-life; his stance looks more pro-choice: "I would try to keep the Federal Government entirely out of abortion: no subsidy-no encouragement, no prohibition." He favors neither enacting a human-life amendment nor overturning Roe. He would send abortion back to the states, although states cannot stop abortions, only impose waiting periods and parental notification...
Jimi is the classic slacker, an overeducated and undisciplined moocher. But unlike most present day slackers, wrapped comfortably in flannel shirts and idolized in songs by Beck, this slacker is stripped of all glory. The people in suits, the ones that often pay for Banks' drinks, say they envy his freedom and his one-day-at-a-time mentality, but the utterly demeaning nature of his existence demonstrates the hollowness of this conceit...