Word: andreas
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...Miranda slowly recedes from the movie's gaze. It wants to concentrate on the politically (and. more important, demographically) correct Andrea. Its prime audience is young women in the early stages of their career facing hard choices - glam jobs vs. meaningful work, nice dull guys vs. gorgeous, morally slippery hunks - getting seriously tempted, but eventually choosing the right path. Worse, the screenwriter (Aline Brosh McKenna) and the director (David Frankel) decide to show us Miranda's human side. She hates her "dragon lady" reputation, feels guilty over her several divorces and is eventually reduced to telling Andrea that she doesn...
...decided to take a chance," Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) muses aloud, "and hire the smart, fat girl." Said smart, fat girl, otherwise known as Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway), is, naturally, present to hear this rumination on the hiring practices of the haughty editor of the haute fashion magazine Runway. She has just made some forgivable beginner's mistake in her new job as Miranda's second assistant - the one who brings in the coffee and picks up the dry cleaning - and she is, incidentally, not fat by any standards other than those that pertain in the skin-and-bones world...
...Streep for letting Miranda's mask (white blonde mane, white-on-white makeup) slip from time to time - especially since she so quickly recovers from these shows of vulnerability; you have to wonder, in these moments, if they are part of a game she's playing, trying to seduce Andrea over to the dark side...
...striking cover portrait is by the artist Michael J. Deas, who has now painted four of our Making of America cover images. D.W. Pine designed the splendid-looking package, Jackson Dykman created the one-of-a-kind graphics, Jay Colton was tireless in finding distinctive pictures, and reporters Andrea Dorfman and Deirdre van Dyk completely immersed themselves in T.R.'s life. "I am not in the least concerned as to whether I will have any place in history," Roosevelt wrote in 1906, "and, indeed, I do not remember ever thinking about it." We're proud to have thought about...
...MILLION Andrea Mantegna Adoration of the Magi...