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...relive Camelot's stop here in 1960 when they had dark, slicked-back hair and offered serious phrases to a young woman who was the first to cover such an event for television. In Milwaukee, Wis., where I stop with W., my aunt hands me a cache of Mom's letters. By election time, my Bush briefing papers have been smashed up against these relics in my cases for so long that the smell of the barns and attics where the notes were stored has soaked through everything...
...times this generational mixing makes the world look smaller now than it did back then. Black-and-white pictures and yellowed news clippings always make people look weightier than they were. But when I think about what drew Mom away from Wauwatosa, Wis., to Washington in 1952, I realize it was the sense that the nation's capital was the center of the world - a place where decisions were made to rebuild Europe, battle the reds and grow a pretty smart economy. Great Men seemed to be doing Great Things, and she wanted that life at the center. The microphone...
...more mysterious - even if he did show off his surgical scar - because the cameras weren't always there. He and his friend House Speaker Sam Rayburn complained that television was killing the old back-room ways. Viewers thought Rayburn a lout when they saw him stay seated when Mom interviewed him. Editorial writers and voters criticized Johnson for talking to this woman before he spoke to the more "serious" men in the press corps...
...point? Throughout the movie, you constantly side with Leo. Poor Leo. Leo still has a thing for his beautiful cousin Erika, who is practically engaged to Willie. Poor Willie, we might also say (Gray says that "Joaquin Phoenix plays the most tragic guy ever."). Erika, Leo's mom, his aunt and his uncle-they all seem to deserve our unconditional pity by the end of the film. And why is that? Things get out of control, and not because someone is particularly evil or malicious. The Yards revolves around this idea of powerlessness; it is not that...
...mom would be good, beph cause she's smart, she's a nice lady and she raised me out of the gutter to where I am today...