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...straight flush) of little Franklin Roosevelt. Suppose Nixon had grown up - not in his bleakly struggling Whittier, California, with the gas station and the saint and the angry, punitive Dad - but as a darling of the Hudson River gentry, doted upon as an only child by an aging gentleman father and by a mother who loved Franklin and indulged him and obsessed upon him, and controlled his life and income to an almost embarrassing degree, even after he had become the most important man in the world...
...Wind Done Gone indisputably uses characters, events and settings from GWTW. Randall changes names--Scarlett O'Hara becomes "Other," Rhett Butler "R," Ashley Wilkes "Dreamy Gentleman"--but these draw whatever substance they have in this version from the people fleshed out in Mitchell's novel. Randall's invention is the character Cinnamon/Cynara, the slave Mammy's mulatto daughter and the half sister of Scarlett, er, Other. Cynara's diary forms the basis of The Wind Done Gone. She writes of her childhood at Cotton Farm and Tata (Tara) and then of events after the period covered in GWTW: her freedom...
...good as the first. The group’s insistence on two-way participation between stage and audience was truly infectious, and in the gorgeous acoustics of the Hall, the effect was awe-inspiring. At one point I could have sworn I even heard the not-quite-elderly gentleman sitting next to me humming along and possibly foot-tapping, though that may have been the moshing five-year-old on the other side of me. The addition of some African-style shakers to the sound pushed the energy level even higher. I lost count of the number of standing ovations...
...McCain won, and now the self-styled Senator Quixote will have to spend the weekend learning how to make a victory speech. There will be tears, no doubt, and we are likely to suddenly notice how the last year has aged the gentleman from La Mancha. There is more wrangling ahead with Bush, on this and other issues, and no doubt McCain will make sure to cast his shadow over the fight in the House. But dare we read into the recent emergence of fresh face John Edwards on the issue as one sign McCain could be ready to pass...
...White House Response I once sat next to a gentleman on a plane who knew Nixon well. He swore that Nixon thought my routines were funny, got a kick out of them. Once I did Nixon in front of him and [Nixon] didn't realize...