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First, Willum's client, Tiki (Ed Upton) appears with his wife, Clelia (Kate deLima) and son, Thor (Doug Miller). Together, they comprise a paradigm for a dysfunctional family. As a couple, Tiki and Clelia are meticulously clad in brown clothes to emphasize that the are the curmudgeon's curmudgeons. Upton's Tiki speaks with a stiff upper lip and in a controlled baritone. His impressive range allows him to play convincingly a much older character...
...Arab as Faceless Horde. Beau Geste, remade countless times, is the paradigm of a cowboys-and-Indians version of the Middle East, with the French Foreign Legion and other colonials standing in for the cavalry and Arabs on horseback providing the Indians...
Unsurprisingly, Wills' military exemplar is the young Napoleon Bonaparte, whose dazzling early victories were based on mobility and constant attack. His antitype is the dithering Union general George McClellan, who seldom met a battle he couldn't find reason to avoid. The paradigm for politics is George Washington, who orchestrated history's most successful transition from monarchy to republicanism. Washington's achievement, as Wills sees it, was to bring "legal rule out of the false dilemma posed in revolutionary times -- either charisma or chaos." Wills' political antitype is Oliver Cromwell, who became as regal as Charles I, the Stuart king...
...Ethnic studies proponents should be wary of using the African-American experience as a paradigm for other ethnic experiences...
...Mark Pertschuk, executive director of the national organization Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, based in Berkeley, California, thinks another historical paradigm is more apt. Around the turn of the century, chewing tobacco was popular, and spittoons were commonplace in bars and restaurants. When an epidemic of tuberculosis broke out and the disease was linked to spittoons, a doctors' group that eventually became the American Lung Association campaigned to have them removed. "At the time, it was considered to be outrageous and anti-American to get rid of spittoons," says Pertschuk. "When historians look back on this ((smoking)) controversy in 25 years...