Word: leonardo
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...country, we've always romanticized coolness. The founders were the original rebels with a cause, and the leather jacket of hipness was passed down from Natty Bumppo to James Dean to Leonardo DiCaprio. Bill Clinton lived this duality. He was not exactly a heartbreaker at Hot Springs High. He was a burly 6-ft. 2-in. kid who played not on the football team but in the band at half time. Even though he ran for virtually every class office (not generally a sign of hipness), he emulated Elvis Presley, the king of bad-boy coolness, and drove around...
...racking sobs rise in a plangent chorus outside the nation's multiplexes, as young girls cry, "How can we survive a summer without Leo?" In the past the season has survived pretty well without Leonardo DiCaprio. But in the wake of Titanic, studios wish they could clone the blond bambino as easily and guiltlessly as they steal story ideas. What works at the movies? What else? What worked before...
...hour-long speech ranging from barbed critiques of Harvard's professors--whom she decried for postmodernism--to discussion of the enigmatic physical beauty of Leonardo DiCaprio, Paglia said she sees contemporary America as a mesh between the Judeo-Christian religious tradition and pre-Christian paganism...
Paglia even finds the pagan artistic tradition's expression in teen-aged girls' bacchanalian frenzies for Leonardo DiCaprio and the Hanson brothers...
...noted, "Leonardo DiCaprio looks like a 13 year-old lesbian...