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...there's something about her Vanity Fair that doesn't quite work. There is no depth beneath its bright surfaces, no potent emotional undercurrents. One thinks of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, also based on a Thackeray novel about an ill-born social outsider on the rise. It too was a beautiful film, but it did not merely record a lost world; it peered at it?as if the fold of a dress or the knot of a cravat might possibly contain the secret of life. Or at least a useful clue to correct behavior...
SHOULD DICK CHENEY REMAIN ON THE G.O.P. TICKET? Absolutely. He and the President have a very important relationship, which will endure. There's always talk about the importance of who the running mate is, but it's been since Lyndon Johnson that a vice-presidential candidate has truly swung an election...
...Presidential Scholars program, in recent years, has suffered under the hand of this paradox. Created in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to both honor a select group of students and “symbolically [honor] all graduating high school seniors of high potential,” it historically has served to celebrate outstanding achievement and, more importantly, promote the values associated with the pursuit of noble aspirations...
...distinguished ranks. Wearing a skullcap, matching track suit emblazoned "Professor of Erbology" and chains, Ali G addressed "da most cleverest of students in America" and their parents with a homily that, in his inimitably maladroit manner, touched on everything from sex, drugs and pornography to famous Harvard grads like "Lyndon Baines Johnson, or, as he is known, J.F.K." and "that really fit hottie from Star Wars" (a.k.a. actress Natalie Portman, who graduated last year). At the end, he cheered the audience with "Big up yaself, Princeton...
...addition to the ease with which he dropped impolite slang, Ali showed that he was as comfortable dropping the names of famous Harvard graduates—including such luminaries as “Lyndon Baines Johnson, or as he is known, JFK,” “President George Clinton” and “that really fit honey from Star Wars...