Word: michelet
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Famous parents are the bad guys in this monster movie. Bertie's childhood friend and occasional lover, Clea, is the daughter of a toweringly successful Hepburnesque actress. Bertie and Clea both have regular acting gigs on Starwatch, and when an older actor named Thad Michelet arrives on the set, it turns out that he is burdened with an overbearing parent of his own--his father is a wildly famous novelist. The three bond on sight, with an audible magnetic click...
...historian Leopold von Ranke remarked of the Frenchman Michelet: "He wrote history in a style in which the truth could not be told." Political conventions are conducted in a style in which the truth cannot be told. The Democrats have spent the week citing the falsities of the Republicans in Philadelphia (the phony diversity, for example, all those conservatives wagging their heads and singing, "Red and yellow, black and white/ They are precious in His sight/ Jesus loves the little children of the world...