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...peaked with Escrivá's 1992 beatification, a brief (for those days) 17 years after his death. Faultfinders, notes Allen, claimed that the judging panel had been packed and Escrivá's critics blackballed; they viewed his fast move toward sainthood as the muscle-flexing "ecclesiastical equivalent of [the Roman emperor] Caligula making his horse a senator." Allen sees the beatification as legitimate, as did 300,000 people who thronged Rome for Escrivá's 2002 canonization...
...Richard seems to be that he has unlimited amounts of time and money. I'm sure the world appears to be populated with entertaining, emotionally revivifying people when you can spontaneously send a stranger you met in the produce section away for a spa weekend that would make Caligula's knees weak. And I don't have an estranged son, but if I did and could impulse buy him a VW Beetle (black, convertible, with bud vase) the way Richard does for his son Ben, I doubt we'd be estranged for long...
Imagine, then, watching what came next, as she was declared a mediocrity, a crony, "the least qualified choice since Caligula named his horse to the Senate." There was such venom in the attacks that you had to remind yourself that unlike in past court dramas--the slaying of Robert Bork or Richard Nixon's ill-fated henchman G. Harrold Carswell--this was not just about her; it was about him, about Bush's promises and the dream of a permanent conservative revolution. Of all the things a President ever does, this is the one that lasts: he picks the jurists...
...wrote that, on a visit to Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion: "Chuck decided to demonstrate a new trick he had been practicing -putting his entire fist into me. ... At this point everyone applauded, again, just like in an old Fred Astaire movie." A Roman bacchanal, with Hef as Caligula...
...play, Caligula appears sympathetic, for he is a poor and truly lonely individual. Only the enthusiastic cast and strong aesthetics could inspire sensitivity toward such a monster...