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Bush: How are ya' boys? Looks like I made a big hit with that speech I gave a couple weeks ago on the ethics thing. I sure am proud that we can finally get rid of that sleazy aura that Ronnie's Californians brought to Washington. My soul hasn't felt so pure since the good old days at Yale when me and the boys were hanging out at Skull and Bones...
...very early or very late ones, though no special interest attaches to "Warhol's Warhols" beyond the circumstance that they were unsold at the time of his death. Nevertheless, despite this compliance with their sales pitch, the guardians of Warhol's name and estate (who are busy marketing his aura like a combination of Jesus Christ's and Donald Duck's) are reportedly miffed by the form that the show took at the hands of its curator, Kynaston McShine. The show's emphasis falls on Warhol up to 1968, the year he was shot by a mad lumpen-feminist named...
...pocket while his right hand ticks off the logical points he wants to make; when he listens, his palms press together as he taps his fingers thoughtfully. At a lectern, he talks rather than preaches. On a couch, his relaxed body language and bemused self-assurance give him the aura of an actor in a light-beer commercial...
...your desk and that's it. Then the adrenaline begins running. You're sitting there in the Federal Reserve where you're supposed to do things that aren't all that popular. And to the extent that you have an aura, if that's the right word, of professionalism, it makes it all that easier...
...advanced age, Republicanism and durability create some parallels between Eisenhower and Reagan. But as a politician, the general was not the actor's equal. Political scientist Richard Neustadt points out that "Ike came into office with the status of a genuine national hero and merely had to preserve that aura. Reagan came in only with what he had on his back and had to create his stature." One indispensable item Reagan carried was a quiver of messages and images, simple but sharp, honed over his many years as a conservative advocate. His great skill was in making...