Bowie's fascination with the bizarre was fuelled when he met dancer Lindsay Kemp: " He lived on his emotions, he was a wonderful influence.

Studying avant-garde theatre and mime under Lindsay Kemp, he was given the role of Cloud in Kemp's 1967 theatrical production Pierrot in Turquoise ( later made into the 1970 television film The Looking Glass Murders ).

An early Kemp tax reform attempt was an unsuccessful 1979 proposal to index tax brackets for cost of living fluctuations, which was incorporated in Reagan's 1980 package.

The reversal was controversial and stimulated opposition by Kemp.

By 1985, Kemp was a leading contender for the 1988 Presidential nomination.

" Kemp has compared his speech to George Carlin's 1984 comedy routine on the differences between baseball and American football and has written that his " tongue was firmly planted in cheek " when making the speech.

Kemp was among the majority of Republican candidates in opposition to Reagan's INF Treaty agreement with the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev despite general Republican voter approval of the treaty.

By early 1988, the moderates ( Bush and Dole ) were clearly the front-runners and Kemp was battling with Pat Robertson as the conservative alternative to the moderates.

As a so-called " bleeding-heart conservative ", Kemp was a logical choice for Bush as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, whose job would be to foster public sector and private sector methods to meet the demands of public housing.

However, the scandals of Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel Pierce and the neglect of the president were obstacles from the start, and Kemp was unsuccessful at either of his major initiatives: enacting enterprise zones and promoting public housing tenant ownership.

Although Kemp was unable to procure money for his visions, he was among the administration's leading users of first class corporate jets.

In 1992, with H. Ross Perot mounting a formidable campaign, Kemp was again considered a Vice Presidential candidate.

Kemp was partly at fault for not achieving either of his primary goals because he did not get along with the rest of the Cabinet.

At one point, Kemp told James Baker, White House Chief of Staff, that Bush's best chance to win reelection was to dump his economic advisors in dramatic fashion.

Kemp was respected within the party for opposing Bush, and towards the end of Bush's administration insiders recognized his value.

Kemp was considered the star of the 1992 Republican National Convention.

In 1992 and 1993, Kemp was considered the favorite or co-favorite for the 1996 Presidential nomination.

At the time of the 1994 mid-term elections, Kemp was widely anticipated to announce his candidacy for 1996, and his supporters wanted a formal announcement by the end of the year.

In January 1995, Kemp's stated reason for not entering the 1996 Republican Party presidential primaries was that his personal beliefs were out of balance with the contemporary Republican political landscape: Kemp opposed term limits, he always preferred tax cuts to anything resembling a balanced budget amendment and, unlike most Republicans, favored federal incentives to combat urban poverty.

In 1995, Gloria Borger noted Kemp was not in step with the 1994 Contract with America.

The Gore victory was not a surprise since Kemp had been outmatched by Gore in previous encounters, and Gore had a reputation as an experienced and vaunted debater.

( 110 ) Officers of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force initially received the AWB militia with “ great joy and surprise .” ( Vuur en Verraad, Arthur Kemp ) The AWB militia assembled in an airport hangar in Mmabatho, where they were to be provided with rations and firearms.

From the outset, Kemp had failed to position himself as the primary alternative to Vice President Bush.

Although Kemp coaxed Bush to support a $ 4 billion housing program that encouraged public housing tenants to buy their own apartments, the Democratic Congress allocated only $ 361 million to the plan.

President Bush avoided federal antipoverty issues, and instead used Kemp as a mouthpiece to speak on the administration's low priority conservative activist agenda.

Before the 1992 Republican National Convention, Kemp and six prominent Republican conservatives prepared a controversial memo urging Bush to revise his economic policy.

In late 1991, 81 of the 166 Republican Congressmen signed a letter co-authored by Curt Weldon and Dan Burton requesting that Bush cede some domestic authority to Kemp as a " domestic policy czar.

After Bush won and Kemp left Congress for the Cabinet, the two did not really cross paths again until 1996, when Kemp endorsed Dole's opponent Forbes on the eve of the New York Primary in March.

Former President George W. Bush said that Kemp " will be remembered for his significant contributions to the Reagan Revolution and his steadfast dedication to conservative principles during his long and distinguished career in public service.

The music was subsequently used in a film The Line, the Cross and the Curve ( 1993 ) made by Kate Bush, starring Miranda Richardson and Lindsay Kemp, which references the original film.

Contributors to Imprimis have included Jeb Bush, Ward Connerly, Dinesh D ' Souza, Milton Friedman, Jack Kemp, Irving Kristol, David McCullough, Richard John Neuhaus, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Clarence Thomas, and Tom Wolfe.

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* 1988 – Bob Dole ( 37 %), Pat Robertson ( 25 %), George H. W. Bush ( 19 %), Jack Kemp ( 11 %), and Pete DuPont ( 7 %)

He was considered as the Vice-Presidential nominee on the GOP ticket by Bob Dole and George W. Bush in 1996 and 2000, though Jack Kemp and Dick Cheney were chosen instead.

President Bush elevated Keating in 1990 to General Counsel and Acting Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, that Department ’ s second highest office, under Secretary Jack Kemp.

Other recipients of Andreas's " tithing " — as he puts it — have included George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, Michael Dukakis, Jesse Jackson, and Jack Kemp.

Released in 1993, it co-starred Miranda Richardson and noted choreographer Lindsay Kemp, who had served as dance mentor to Bush early in her career.

Prominent fiscal conservatives include former U. S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, Representative Mike Pence, former Representative and Secretary of HUD Jack Kemp, U. S. Senator Tom Coburn ( Oklahoma ), Publisher Steve Forbes, and activist Grover Norquist.

Bush, Jack Kemp, and Alexander Haig ; however, Bush's people never got back to him, Speakes decided that Kemp was " too hot " ( meaning too quick with an answer ) for television, and was advised by another Washington insider, " You can do that the Haig team if you want to, but let me tell you one thing: Al Haig ain't going to be President.

After retiring from Congress and serving in the Cabinet, Kemp remained close to Gingrich, Lott, Weber, and Mack.

( He did, however, donate his services as a speaker at a $ 100-a-plate fundraiser for Republican Congressman Jack Kemp.

" Kemp, for his part, recalled, " I didn't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself on the outside, ...

After Kemp cast Bowie with Hermione Farthingale for a poetic minuet, the pair began dating ; they soon moved into a London flat together.

In 1986, during a House floor debate over whether the United States should host the 1994 FIFA World Cup, Kemp proclaimed: " I think it is important for all those young out there — who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands — a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

Kemp as he leaves a meet-the-candidates rally for 1988 Republican presidential candidates in County Stadium in Union, South Carolina, on October 3, 1987.

In 1988, if Kemp had won his campaign for the United States Presidency, it would have made him the first person to move from the United States House of Representatives to the White House since James Garfield.

To offset his socially moderate stances, Kemp clarified his opposition to abortion, his support of the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) and his support for a stronger military than that favored by Secretary of State George Shultz.

To position himself as Reagan's successor, Kemp called for Shultz's resignation based on claims that Shultz had neglected freedom fighters in Afghanistan and Nicaragua and had waffled on SDI.

In addition to opposition in Congress, Kemp fought White House Budget Director Richard Darman, who opposed Kemp's pet project HOPE ( Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere ).

The budget left him with $ 256 million for his plan, which Kemp increased during some appropriations battles.

Bush's contribution to the urban agenda had been volunteerism through his " Points of Light " theme, and Kemp received stronger support for his ideas from Presidential candidate Bill Clinton.

A free market Kemp initiative to allow homeowners to subdivide their houses for the purpose of creating rental units without inordinate bureaucracy did not get executed under the Clinton administration, however.

Kemp gave public speeches for $ 35, 000 apiece between his time as Housing Secretary and his Vice Presidential nomination.

By 1994, Kemp had embarked on 241 fund-raising dinners to raise $ 35 million for a 1996 Presidential bid and to pay off his 1988 campaign debts.

After stepping down from his $ 189, 000 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development job, Kemp personally earned $ 6. 9 million in the next three years, primarily for speaking on behalf of local Republican candidates.