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I run into her old sources at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles. They've come back to relive Camelot's stop here in 1960 when they had dark, slicked-back hair and offered serious phrases to a young woman who was the first to cover such an event for...
Bush blasted the disclosure as "dirty politics, last-minute politics," and he attributed it to Democratic maneuvering. "I don't know if my opponent's campaign was involved," he told Fox News the day after the story broke. "But I do know that the person who admitted doing it was...
"Is there a more mysterious idea for an artist than the conception of how nature is mirrored in the eyes of an animal?" wrote Marc in 1911. "How wretched, how soulless is our convention of placing animals in a landscape that belongs to our eyes, instead of sinking ourselves in...
There are times when less would not be more, when it would just be regrettably... less. Umberto Eco has argued, for example, that "Casablanca" works because it evokes every convention of the romantic-adventure genre. If it had missed even one or two of them, he suggests, it would have...
"The Republican convention gave Bush a huge boost, and Gore got a boost from the Democratic convention too," he says. "Both candidates have had a lot of trouble with the independent base, and that's where the volatility lies."