Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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They have discovered that Puerto Ricans take their politics the old-fashioned way, urging the candidates to shake hands, gobble down morcillas (sausages) and twirl senoritas around the dance floor. "People want to see what the politicians look like close up," explains Connally Supporter Raymond Catala, a San Juan lawyer. "They want to touch them...
...Beanpot, you throw all the records out the window," Cleary said yesterday. "We're going to shake up a few people...
...blitz aimed at bringing out as big a caucus vote as possible. "The more people who turn out, the more it helps me," says Baker. But that is a strategy better calculated to work in a primary than in a caucus. Connally and Baker are both also trying to shake as many hands as possible, but they are several thousand behind Bush. As Dick Redman, Baker's Iowa campaign chairman, puts it: "In Iowa, folks who haven't spent 15 minutes with a candidate feel jilted...
...hypnosis was a hype. Says he: "Bianchi was almost a caricature of a hypnotized person, with eyes closed and head bobbing-a pseudo trance." The other prosecution choice. Psychiatrist Martin Orne, staged his own "double hallucination" test of Bianchi. After trying to hypnotize the killer, Orne asked him to shake hands with an imaginary figure that he identified as Bianchi's attorney Dean Brett. Then Orne had the real Brett enter the room. Confused, Bianchi asked if Brett could be in two places...