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What about the bookstores? Beyond the standard fare--like Washington coloring books--there were a few standouts. Alice Provensen's The Buck Stops Here is a droll recap, in verse, of all 42 Presidents. (Tricky Dick's couplet: "Here's Thirty-seven! Nixon, R./ California's tarnished star.") Judith St. George's So You Want to Be President? offers such tips as "It might help if your name is James." The kids' sentimental favorite: When John & Caroline Lived in the White House...
...What about the bookstores? Beyond the standard fare - like Washington coloring books - there were a few standouts. Alice Provensen's "The Buck Stops Here" is a droll recap, in verse, of all 42 presidents. (Tricky Dick's couplet: "Here's Thirty-seven! Nixon, R./ California's tarnished star.") Judith St. George's "So You Want to Be President?" offers such tips as "It might help if your name is James." The kids' sentimental favorite: "When John & Caroline Lived in the White House...
...people probably knew those lines a few weeks ago, but they are about to become the most familiar on Broadway. They're the opening couplet of The Wild Party, a book-length narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March published in 1928. The author was a former New Yorker editor, and the poem caused something of a scandal in its day (it was banned--no fooling--in Boston). But it was long out of print until a new edition, illustrated by the cartoonist Art Spiegelman, appeared in 1994. In the introduction, Spiegelman reported that a big fan of the poem...
...aggressively nonintellectual. It's true that when Bush first got into the race he joked a bit about his academic shortcomings in college, and when his Yale transcript was printed in the New Yorker, the impact on his campaign seemed so negligible that I was moved to write a couplet that went, "Obliviously on he sails/With marks not quite as good as Quayle's." (The fact that those marks got him into the Harvard business school, by the way, is yet another reminder of which class of Americans has always benefited from the original form of affirmative action...
...animaster's great coup may have been to impose his will--that the film not be cut--on Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax. Weinstein is notorious for his itch to trim foreign films to suit the faster American pulse; he reads a sonnet and dreams of a couplet. Says Weinstein: "It's a genius movie. Could it be streamlined? Yeah, and it could be more accessible as a result of cutting. But Miyazaki is like Kurosawa or Sergio Leone--one of the greats of international cinema. The very idea of cutting is anathema to a director of this importance...