Word: aristocratã
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...While today we might feel compelled to use the language of gender neutrality, the same sentiment prevails. We want from our leaders not an aristocrat??€™s aloofness but the broad appeal of a character whittled smooth by hard work and strong values, one given not to bombast but to good country straight talk—be that over potatoes and Yuengling in Altoona, Pennsylvania, or fried steak and Lost Duck in Altoona, Iowa. With some unabashed image engineering, it turns out, nothing else really matters...
...without the moistened doe-eyes (e.g., Nicholas Cage, whose recent turns in Family Man and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin have proved that he can do insufferable mournfulness like no other). Looks-wise, he’s solid and then some, his smooth face a juxtaposition of an aristocrat??€™s brow-line and a puppy’s jaw-line. With his droopy sleeves, his toussled hair, his little fits of bangs-blowing anxiety, Cusack projects a vulnerability that is effortlessly winning, a kind of real-guy-but-sweeter charm that both your grandma and your little...
...conquer New York society within a week. Yet the point of this story is not the superficiality of New York’s elite (although that’s a valid point to make). The point is that New York society is infinitely mobile. Everyone, even a fake aristocrat??€”or a bookish intern—is welcome...
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