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Buchanan called himself the vanguard leader of "new conservativism" in the Republican Party. His ideas are so cogent, he said, that the other Republican candidates are stealing them to steal the spotlight and voters...
...hour tornado of a documentary, with rare clips of the 1936 Macbeth, some quaint home movies of Hearst's costume parties, reminiscences by such Welles colleagues as lighting designer Abe Feder (still jazzy after all these years) and William Alland (who played the reporter in Kane). Best is the cogent narration, written by Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer and delivered by Cramer with tart authority, like a wiser Winchell. "Appetite drove [Welles]," he rasps. "Applause wasn't enough. He wanted amazement, the gasp of a common crowd...
...feature-length documentary. Niftily assembled by Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Freidman, the compilation is by turns amusing and heartbreaking, says TIME's Richard Corliss. It adroitly interlaces old film clips, like a peignoired Cary Grant, declaring, in Bringing Up Baby, 'I just went gay all of a sudden!', with cogent comments by Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein, Quentin Crisp and others. But the final irony of the film may be that Hollywood, with its dozens of gay stars, its hundreds of gays in positions of creative and executive power, is still afraid to depict homosexual life: the world Hollywood knows...
POLITICAL ACTIVIST ARIANNA HUFFINGton is the Betsy Ross of America's current conservative risorgimento [REPUBLICANS, Nov. 6]. In a recent TV debate, she was impressive as she made cogent and compassionate arguments in a heated exchange with veteran leftists Betty Friedan and Karen Burstein. Huffington for President in 2000? ROBERT D. LEVINE New York City
...have yet to see a cogent call for welfare reform that doesn't contain at least one serious ellipsis in its logic Usually, however--and unlike Whitman--their authors at least try to conceal such leaps of faith. --James Grimmelmann...