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...trailblazer in entertaining, eager-to-offend conservatism was William F. Buckley Jr. in the early '60s. His cutting wit had the patina of moral certitude, in a fight his liberal opponents were often too genteel to win. Buckley's heirs (William Safire, Buchanan, P.J. O'Rourke) helped lift from Republicans the stigma of the pruney banker. On the radio side, conservative talk also had '50s and '60s pioneers: cantankerous Joe Pine and Bob Grant. Grant and Limbaugh, who have broadcast back to back on New York City's WABC since 1988, have set the limits -- one growly, the other comic...
...professional schools are looking to go abroad. Such wanderlust among the young is nothing new, of course; travel has traditionally been a means of letting off steam after years of cramming for exams -- a chance to see some sights, live out some romantic fantasies and pick up a cosmopolitan patina before going home to the serious business of life. The difference these days is that young people are leaving the U.S. not for pleasure or the burnishing of their education but for the serious business of life...
...With a smart cast and a chic patina, Ron Howard's The Paper reprises this theme, less to celebrate old times than to offer a skeptical perspective on career men and women. Henry Hackett (Michael Keaton), metro editor for the Sun, a New York City tabloid, has to worry about a local race crime -- or is it a mob rubout? -- on a day when he should be thinking about his pregnant, ex-reporter wife (Marisa Tomei) and the cushier job she wants him to take at an uptown daily. There are clever doses of cynicism and office politicking...
...home, Nancy had to make sacrifices. Like any kid who gets special treatment -- arriving at school late and departing early -- she found herself cut off from friendships. For a period in her teens, she trained at the Skating Club of Boston, where there was a wealthy membership and social patina unknown to her. "Sometimes it seemed like they thought they were better than others," she recalls. "And I'd say, like why? We're good people. We're good skaters." A gutsy response, but Nancy hardly understood that some of the snobbery was a cover for envy -- which...
...residence in the country not only gives the President a patina of masculine, aristocratic ease, but in the specific ways the President uses it, it also provides a powerful second context, a non-Washington context, with which he can define himself. Not every summer White House would work for each President, but each gave the President a useful background outside Washington against which to set himself on a regular basis. Are there any more appealing images of Kennedy than those of him sailing, his hair tousled? At San Clemente, Nixon reminded the country that he was a poor...