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Kaysen recalled leaving Harvard to become Kennedy's Deputy National Security Advisor. "If you get away from the superficial awe and the glamour and the good looks...on a much deeper level it was always exciting at the White House, gratifyingly so," Kaysen said...
...Kennedy revisionist, Garry Wills, argues that the extraordinary glamour and heightened expectations that Kennedy brought to the office have crippled all of his successors. They cannot compete with such a powerful myth. It is equally possible, of course, that Kennedy's successors simply do not measure up. Kennedy's was a mind with all of its windows open and a clear light passing through it. That has not been true of anyone who has sat in the place since...
...injury to White gave Gizzi his chance in the glamour spot, instead. Typically refusing to be pinned own on the topic of how firm Gizzi's grip is on the starting spot. Restic said, "One game doesn't make quarterback...
...Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company-a satellite. The character actor cannot simply put himself on display as a star can, assured that his radiance will attract every eye. He must be a wily mendicant for the audience's attention, making up in craft what he lacks in glamour. He cannot just play a scene; he has to steal it. In a decade at the R.S.C., Kingsley proved himself the deftest of second-story...
...victims of its seriousness is the stereo type of the nude. Manet invariably painted women as equal beings, not as denatured objects of allure. Victorine, the model, is clearly a model doing a professional stint; the illusions of the salon body, timelessness and glamour, are no longer properties of nakedness. Other artists painted nymphs as whores; it took Manet, in the Olympia, to paint a whore as her own person, staring back at the voyeurs, restricting the offer to a transaction. Here, as in paintings of women who were not models (like Berthe Morisot, whose shadowed and inward-turning beau...