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...George V and George VI, Elizabeth's father, who assumed the crown after Edward VIII's abdication, were devoted family men who publicly upheld their roles as Defender of the Faith. The present Queen, in the 45th year of her marriage to Prince Philip, has never personally attracted a breath of scandal...
Gore, for example, went so far as to liken America today to his son lying lifeless in his father's arms with "the empty stare of death . . . waiting for a second breath of life." Moving briskly from the pathetic to the political, Gore went on, "Our democracy is lying in the gutter, waiting for us to give it a second breath of life...
Shameful nonsense. Nonsense because no one can possibly look at America today and genuinely see a people, like little Albert, "limp and still, without breath or pulse." Shameful because the analogy is meant to exploit our sympathy for father Gore's pain to convince us that candidate Gore harbors equally deep feelings for the health of America. If he does, he is a lousy father. If he does not, he is a dissimulating politician...
...popular athletes in the world today are George Foreman and Jimmy Connors, who inspire support not because of all they have achieved over the years, but in spite of it. Suddenly, in early middle age, both are born again as underdogs; suddenly, the perennial champions are overweight, out-of-breath, underestimated long shots competing for the hell of it. Time is no longer on their side...
...even I am an example of the trend. And it doesn't really bother me in real life. Who feels like enunciating the nasally "Au Bon Pain," when you can spit out "ABP" in just one breath...