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...tour for "The Golden Age." A revival of "The Best Man," his hit 1960 play about infighting at a national political convention, has just opened on Broadway. And despite Vidal's deeply held atheism, there must be a God, or god, showering his current visibility with reflected glory. A distant cousin (fifth, Vidal thinks) is the Democratic nominee for President. During the party's August convention in Los Angeles, the author told reporters, "I do believe they are nominating the wrong Gore...
...picture that has emerged of Putin during the Kursk crisis is of a leader profoundly imbued with the political culture that has marked centuries of Russian history: the needs of the state always come first; individual concerns come a distant second. When forced by events--an election campaign or a televised tragedy--Putin will don a human face and show concern for the ordinary people. But left to himself, he is far happier in the embrace of his great love--the Russian state...
Couples will be abandoned in distant corners of the 100-acre cemetery and instructed to find Jim Morrison's grave in time to shower before their 6 o'clock dinner reservations. This workshop aims to release women's deep lack of respect for men's poor sense of direction, as well as for men's overconfidence in their ability to get lucky and their unwillingness to ask for help in any language. Couples will dine that evening at a three-star Michelin restaurant, where, no matter what they order, they will be served six courses of variously prepared offal...
...seekers in all areas of life. As the writer David Malouf points out, we don't even think of ourselves as hedonists, because that would be too self-conscious. Australian culture is for the most part deeply democratic, and joyously so as well. It is no longer "provincial," a distant and nervous response to norms generated in imperial centers. It is the result of a bloodless and slow-developing social revolution conducted over 40 years as a small society grew larger and immeasurably more complex, shook off its sense of derivative Englishness and its fear of American domination and learned...
...most people today, the message of the old union films is distant and irrelevant. The mills and factories that unionists fought to organize are now in China and Mexico. This is the postindustrial age, when most new-media employees do quite well without collective bargaining. So do most Americans. We are fat and happy--and socially amnesiac...