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Thomas believes Bobby's is "the story of an unpromising boy who died as he was becoming a great man." Perhaps. Thomas every now and then falls into Camelot prose, the elegiac, mock-heroic blather about bright promise and fate and doom and how the gods have it in for the Kennedys--a literary form of which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is a founding master. And at times, Thomas slips into dreamy, unthinking partisanship: "Americans were afraid in 1968, and they eventually voted their fears and elected Richard Nixon." But perhaps Americans simply decided that the Democrats, with their ruinous, unwinnable...
...Teddy Kennedy was at his old-time booming best, lashing together the generations of Camelot and insisting that the strength and breadth of his support for Gore had only two precedents, each named Kennedy. The arms rose up and the hands thrust out, rally-style, turning shoulder pads into great hulking wings, giving the reverential crowd their big Brahmin in all his glory, soaring in call-and-response - "Fight for Al Gore because... HE IS FIGHTING FOR YOU" - like a linebacker angel. The subject was health care, which surely Gore needs to own, but the word, again and again...
While the 1998 film My Neighbor Totoro contained only six seconds of violence, Warner Bros.' The Quest for Camelot featured more than 24 minutes of violence...
...autographs and comments of admiring denizens. Ted Koppel, Ron Brown, George McGovern and Sergei Khrushchev, seeking respite from the chaotic world beyond Johnston Gate, have all found solace here. Reports of sojourns range from such witticisms as "very stimulating" to "a bloody good time." John Vesey raves about this Camelot. "Wow! The Kennedy vibes are intense. Inspirational sounds so put-on but it certainly is that." Occasional remarks invite puzzled looks-- "ONION," "Long live chocolate chip cookies!" and the oh-so political "No comment." Others invoke giggles--"Yowzah!" and "Much nicer than Nixon's old room at Whittier." Sensing conspiracy...
With his ice-white wig and his freon-filled veins, Warhol and his deadpan cool spoke volumes about the new, acquisitive culture suddenly exploding in the '60s, buoyed by the youthful confidence of the Kennedys' Camelot. Yanked up in voltage and turned garishly hip, Warhol's iconic images of Jackie after J.F.K.'s murder, and his tabloid pictures of cars crashed and suicides, replaced dignity with glitz, marrying starstruck glamour to grisly death. Nothing since has seemed so electric and shallow, so perfect a mirror of what was happening to the state of America's spirit. The soulfulness of Pollock...