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DIED. MICHAEL EVANS, 61, photographer whose folksy portrait of Ronald Reagan, beaming beneath a worn cowboy hat during his bid for the 1976 G.O.P. presidential nomination, made the covers of TIME, PEOPLE and Newsweek after the Gipper's death last year and whose work for TIME covering Reagan's triumphant 1980 campaign inspired the President to hire him as White House photographer; of cancer; in Atlanta...
There's an obvious political spin to that caricature--recall the 2004 election, when the Bush campaign positioned itself against ivory-tower liberal élites. Colbert's persona has a conservative bent: in his words, he's a reflexive "Blame America last-er" and has a dog named Gipper. But Colbert is also spoofing the general trend in news to pander to emotion, to value graphics over thinking, gut over brain. "That, I think, is the nutmeat of the show," he tells me. "Enough mind. We tried mind for a long time, and what has it gotten us? You know...
...Hail and Farewell Hugh Sidey's "The Gipper's Final Flight" was a lovely tribute to Ronald Reagan [June 21]. It was warm, human and touching and gently reminded us that Reagan's family members are real people who love, feel loss and mourn, but will keep on living. Sidey's words were a fitting benediction for a man who was more than the sum of his public personas throughout the years. Michele Chalmers Cary...
Hugh Sidey's "The Gipper's Final Flight" was a lovely tribute to Ronald Reagan [June 21]. It was warm, human and touching and gently reminded us that Reagan's family members are real people who love, feel loss and mourn, but will keep on living. Sidey's words were a fitting benediction for a man who was more than the sum of his public personas throughout the years. MICHELE CHALMERS Cary...
Krauthammer may claim that Reagan won the cold war, but in 1990, two years after the Gipper left office, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mikhail Gorbachev, the Russian reformer who presided so masterfully over the Soviet Union's demise. MORT PAULSON Silver Spring...