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Johnson is the last President we have had who relished domestic affairs. Califano's portrait shows that Johnson's genius was in his uncanny insight and attention to detail. "You look like an ice-cream salesman," Johnson told Califano when he showed up in a light suit. Califano went dark gray...
Charles Krauthammer's "Why Americans Hate Politicians," on the impact of negative political ads, offers great insight into our system ((ESSAY, Dec. 9)). Perhaps the bad feelings that negative ads generate have contributed to the nation's present state of malaise. The time has come for all parties to pick up their shovels and remove the mud piles once...
...husband raffish and charming when he is portrayed as an obvious alcoholic. Nora's closest bond seems to be with an old school friend, now a movie star, who induces the couple to take on the murder case. In this role, Christine Baranski, normally an actress of delicacy and insight, stomps about and grinds her jaw like a man in drag...
Maintaining this delicate balance of the historical and the lyrical throughout, Aridjis manages both to reconstruct a world and to keep it alight with poetic insight. Fully in command of the irony that drives this novel, Aridjis steers 1492 clear of the countless obstacles that confront a fictional history of this magnitude. This other history of 1492 is one of the most compelling to appear...
...performance lags when Raymond tries to psychoanalyze himself. At one point, he tells the audience that his mind is not "primarily a means of understanding the world but of gaining recognition from an otherwise indifferent adult world." This insight seems too academic for a man who moments before was pounding the walls in frustration...