Word: jerseys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shall attempt to eat in our very own home!") and just came out and said it. In a front-page story about the Bruce Springsteen concert was this comment: "Many people seemed, for a day at least, to exult in the fact that they too were from New Jersey...
...attended the first of 15 sold-out Springsteen shows in New Jersey last week, with a love not just for the music but also for the culture of my home state. I basked in the entire scene, complete with outdoors boardwalk games and sand brought up from the Jersey Shore--sand that no doubt had dangerous, used surgical supplies buried...
...known only for our medical-supply companies. No, New Jersey is a state that brought us the light bulb, Walt Whitman and the Shopasaurus T shirt. Jersey is the only state that so overpowers its namesake that you can drop the New when referring to it. Try that with Hampshire, York or Mexico. No one has heard of those places. Other than Texas, Jersey is the only state to have a cohesive, distinct personality. It is a state so full of attitude that its capital, Trenton, welcomes visitors with Hollywood-size letters declaring TRENTON MAKES. THE WORLD TAKES. Our mascot...
...Springsteen songs rhapsodizing about drag racing on the highway, riding motorcycles toward swamps, taking dates on amusement-park rides, working at oil refineries and getting arrested by state troopers. I have never experienced any of those things, but somehow I felt them. Because that's what being from New Jersey is really about: feeling things in Bruce Springsteen songs. I have a hungry heart. I am in the dumps with the mumps as an adolescent pumps his way into his hat. It's like he knows...
...failure of the Gore campaign to deflect attention from their own internal woes. What good are Gore's image consultants if they can't even spin internal disagreements with in their own campaigns? No wonder that Gore's issue message is being eclipsed by former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. Polls in key states like New Hampshire and Michigan show a definite Bradley surge at a time when Gore is supposed to enjoy the benefits of incumbency...