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...20th century, when the media magnify every private witlessness of public figures, then even the appearances of traditional majesty are at risk. Walter Bagehot wrote of the monarchy in the 19th century: "You must not let daylight in upon magic." You must not let daylight in upon Dracula either. Relentless public exposure is the death of grandeur, especially when there are tapes from the phone conversations. The tabloid is to the House of Windsor as a summer dawn to the Transylvanian count...
...fact that Jackson was born black in the segregated South is essential to unraveling his character, but, as Frady convincingly demonstrates, the pangs of racial insult are not the sole, or even most important, source of Jackson's relentless drive for attention and self-definition. The illegitimate offspring of 16-year-old Helen Burns and her married next-door neighbor Noah Robinson, Jackson suffered the taunt "Jesse ain't got no daddy" from other children in his native Greenville, South Carolina. After his mother married hardworking Charles Jackson and had a child with him, three-year old Jesse was sent...
Todd Solondz's celebrated new film "Welcome to the Dollhouse" brings a tight focus to a circle of hell never before examined on the silver screen--junior high. With relentless detail, Solondz recalls a world of harlequin posters, crop tops, and the first birthday parties where you didn't invite everyone in the class. But the film falters when Solondz pans out, stretches the plot, and attempts to shift from brutal realism to the much more abstract genre of farce...
...palpable, her graciousness as carefully applied as her glue-gun red lipstick. Yet when a journalist prepares to ask her a question, she tenses up as though waiting for a blow. Her answers are often so resolutely bland as to suggest a terror of revealing anything human. Her relentless and self-confessed perfectionism seems to hide a fear of being perceived as something less than the sum of her resume. Why does a woman who has been Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Labor (the only woman ever to hold two Cabinet positions in different administrations), feel the need...
Campaigning was relentless. Fluorescent posters spattered kiosks and building walls. Candidates wheeled around the Yard in shopping carts screaming campaign slogans and even enlisted the help of Harvard Square totems like the Square Change vendors...