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...focuses on the presidency, I found Rosenblatt's commentary downright hysterical until I got to the quote he attributed to Woodrow Wilson. In fact, it was Calvin Coolidge who said when a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. It's worth noting that Silent Cal had a sense of humor so dry that Alice Roosevelt Longworth said he looked like he'd been weaned on a pickle. DAVE ESPOSITO State College...
...suggestion that we don't have a [cost] crisis flies in the face of common sense," said representatives William R. Goodling (R-Pa.) and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-Cal.) in a joint press release last Tuesday--two days before the commission would meet again...
...Holt, who had studied Branum's past writings. He even brought some of them up: "Sexual Predator in Chief? Isn't that a low blow?" In the end, Branum was let go with a gentle warning. Meanwhile, Stanford won the game but lost a goalpost to a swarm of Cal students in a postgame melee...
...minutes before the iceberg slices open the starboard side, some compelling romantic fiction is in order. Here the film fails utterly. It imagines an affair between free-spirited artist Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio) in steerage and Philadelphia blueblood Rose Bukater (Kate Winslet), unhappily engaged to wealthy Cal Hockley (Billy Zane). DiCaprio has a smooth, winsome beauty, and Winslet, who at first seems bulky beside him, comes to look ravishingly ravaged by the climax. Everyone else is a caricature of class, designed only to illustrate a predictable prejudice: that the first-class passengers are third-class people, and vice versa...
...film doesn't play to Cameron's strength as a ringmaster of burly metaphorical fantasy. His story of Jack, Rose and Cal isn't half as poignant as the true ones known from books and films of the event. On this vast canvas, the problems of these three little people really don't amount to a hill of beans...