Word: kefauveritis
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But being a bondage babe wasn't much of a distinction to the mass audience of the '50s, who didn't know Bettie Page existed. If she'd had even a little mainstream fame, Estes Kefauver, who chaired a Senate investigation into the movies she starred in, would surely have...
Whether he really meant for it to be exhibited in black underwear and painfully high boots, or tied up in bondage poses, is a question that doesn't seem to bother Page, armored as she is in innocence and good nature. It is, though, a question that bothers others, including...
That's pretty much what Mary Harron's cool, sly movie has for a conflict. And since Page, though under subpoena, never gets to tell her side of the story to Kefauver, not a lot comes of it. Mostly the film encourages us to giggle along with Page as she...
There is a grand, bipartisan New Hampshire tradition of truth-telling Jeremiahs taking the state by storm, from Estes Kefauver in 1952 to John McCain in 2000, but Lieberman seems to be a classic case of honor without profit. For one thing, Howard Dean locked up the maverick vote with...
Bradley has too much in common with Stevenson, the Illinois Governor and two-time Democratic nominee who styled himself as being above politics (and arguably was) but lost in 1952 and '56. Like Stevenson and the other iconoclasts who descend from him, such as Eugene McCarthy and Paul Tsongas, Bradley...