Extreme Conventions: San Francisco, 1964, and Cleveland, 2016
In the aftermath of the 1964 Republican National Convention, in San Francisco, it wasn’t hard to assess the damage that the gathering had done to the Party and to its nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater, of Arizona. It had been an awful Convention, and its worst moments had been on television. One bad episode came when Governor Nelson Rockefeller, of New York, who was the runner-up in the primaries, tried to speak and faced a torrent of jeers and boos. Another involved a doomed effort to promote t..>> view originalGEICO Week in New York: June 13-19
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BOSTON (CBS) — Boston’s hopes of landing much-heralded local prospect Jimmy Vesey took a major hit on Monday, as the Buffalo Sabres swooped in and acquired the negotiating rights to the 23-year-old from the Nashville Predators. The Sabres sent Nashville a third-round pick in exchange for the exclusive right to negotiate with Vesey before Aug. 15. Vesey was originally drafted 66th overall in 2012, but he’d go on to play four years at Harvard, where he tallied 104 points (56-48-104) in 70 games i..>> view originalNSFW: How LUST Restored My Faith In NYC, Parties, And Hot ...
fullscreen “I feel like this is what Sex and the City promised me New York would be like,” said Ruthie, a photographer for Bushwick Daily. We were leaning against the bar, sipping champagne and watching a woman in glittering nipple tassles arrange a pile of fried quail wings on a man’s crotch. He was lying supine on a low table, naked but for a pair of flesh-colored underwear, a jeweled necklace, and the serene expression of a person totally at ease with his current place in time and..>> view originalSports Authority's Mile High naming-rights gambit
Defunct sporting-goods retailer Sports Authority is trying to auction naming rights to the home stadium of the NFL's Denver Broncos -- an unusual move that's raising eyebrows in the world of sports marketing.The company wants to capture some of the appreciation in the value of naming-rights deals since striking its agreement for Sports Authority Field at Mile High back in 2011, a time when the market for such arrangements had just begun to heat up again after collapsing during the Great Recessi..>> view originalTrump Was Loyal To Corey Lewandowski — Until He Fell Behind ...
Donald Trump’s campaign for president seems to be in chaos. On Monday, Trump fired his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, even though he previously promised he would not do so when other Republicans called for Lewandowski’s head. Whether the firing was the result of personal or strategic differences with Trump or his family, what’s clear is that it comes at a moment when Trump’s general election polling is spiraling downward in a way his primary polling never did. Winning appears to be of the..>> view original
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