Word: camelot
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...days. His father went down to the hospital boiler room and wept. But they were a real family now. After the assassination, Jackie recalled to Theodore White the nights when Jack would turn on the phonograph in their bedroom and play the title song from the Broadway hit Camelot. Perhaps he saw his presidency as a chimera, "that brief shining moment" that must not be forgot. But the song was instead a premonition of tragedy...
Bill Clinton possesses some of Kennedy's gifts -- youth, energy, the most important job in the world. Clinton's problem may be that he learned a few wrong lessons from J.F.K. One better-left-unlearned text from the lout's side of Camelot might be the idea that a guy can get away with anything...
Other than providing an opportunity for a reprise, no matter how contrived, of Camelot, the Clinton victory reinforced the singular definition of youth as that place where everything is possible. Age (and Bush's defeat) were represented as that place where one is constrained by limitations...
...irony of our present situation is that moral laxness has always existed at the top levels of our government--the media has just kept quiet about it. Even though we compare the cynical temper of our country today to the optimism of the early 1960s, Camelot was more illusion than fact. Back then, our desire for moral authority was so strong that we were willing to shut our eyes to the truth, including the sexual exploits of John F. Kennedy '40 from Winthrop House to the White House. When Watergate shattered our notion that the government is morally impervious...
...vehicle needed for President Kennedy's visit to Dallas. At first this looks like the convergence of two recent strains of Hollywood retro-history: JFK in the Line of Fire. But A Perfect World, which Eastwood directed from John Lee Hancock's script, is not another dark fable about Camelot. The stage is smaller here, the concerns personal rather than political. This is an old- fashioned, nicely spun-out, two-handed character drama. It just takes the film a while to reveal who its main players are and how ambitious its agenda...