Word: ranger
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...work for CNN, hegemonic transducer of the dismaying current events that probably led From Campaign's writers to inscribe the good-guy roles onto characters from another time. Forkner's breasts hang low. Chung makes a bombastic zephyr. Fenton and Green magically fuse the camaraderie of the Lone Ranger and Tonto with the out-of-time bewilderment of Dorothy and Toto (they even bring a pair of ruby slippers, only in this case they are neither ruby nor slippers...
...celebrated conservative who as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson argued in a memo that segregated schools were constitutional. He wrote so many solo dissents in his early years as a Justice, when the court was more liberal, that he kept a Lone Ranger doll on his mantelpiece. Though he has hired some 80 law clerks, none has been black (he responds that he has "never excluded consideration of anyone" based on race). His natural ideological allies are the sort of Republicans who favor Clinton's conviction. But court watchers say he has moved toward the center...
...snaps out of it, perhaps realizing that he's just made the kind of comparison he had boasted about avoiding. He savors these small imaginative flights. In trying to explain himself in the past year, he has invoked such figures as Joe Friday, Atticus Finch, the Lone Ranger, George Washington and Christ in the garden at Gethsemane on the night before the Crucifixion ("Let this cup passeth from me"). The roster suggests that Starr needs to place himself in the company of heroes and saviors. "I can't be the judge in my own case," he says, and maybe...
Sawyer turned up little actual news beyond Starr's admission that his office should have kept Linda Tripp on a tighter leash. The real revelations were in Starr's sense of self. Having previously compared himself to Joe Friday, Atticus Finch, George Washington and the Lone Ranger, Starr upped the ante on 20/20, when he tacitly likened himself to Sir Thomas More ("He took the law very seriously") and, half-jokingly, to Jesus Christ (Starr said his reaction on first hearing of Lewinsky was "a little bit of 'Let this cup pass from me'"). The More reference was actually kind...
...Hunt (1889-74), who every day either brought his lunch to work in a paper sack or, when not feeling quite so flush, cadged his secretary's sandwich. Less well known was oil and cattle baron James ("Silver Dollar Jim") West (1903-57). Wearing a diamond-encrusted Texas Ranger's badge and hunched behind the wheel of one of his 30 automobiles, West loved to race alongside Houston police in pursuit of evildoers, throwing handfuls of silver dollars to startled onlookers as he sped...