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While the king's madness is resolved, the play leaves open a host of insidious questions about leadership and its dissimulation. The crux of the play lies in the king's remark as he recovers his sanity: "I have remembered how to seem; that is the important thing." Sanity, for George III, involves maintaining a public persona. The king's dilemma, and the question that Bennett throws out at his audience, is where does a suitable public face begin and sanity...
...Oslo," a miniature sand-dune topography made of aspirin filings-is, ironically, the one selected for the cover of the catalogue. In an otherwise pithy exhibit, this oblique and banal concept piece is a huge misstep. (The curators appear equally confused, commenting on it only with the flustered remark that it "raises questions about the fundamental idea of landscape...
...commercial success established Radiohead as one of the most creative and experimental mainstream bands of the mid-nineties, not applicable to the Blur-vs.-Oasis Battle of the Brit Bands. "High and Dry," "Just" and "Fake Plastic Trees" (immortalized in Clueless as Cher makes that "whiny college radio song" remark and shuts off the stereo) became instant radio (and MTV) hits...
...opponent as a symbol of the Democratic party of the past. Whenever Al Gore has tried to distance himself from President Clinton, his opponent has been right there with a tube of epoxy. "We don't want another four more years of Clinton/Gore," George Bush says in a typical remark repeated at almost every stop. So it was a moment for a little head-scratching in Green Bay, Wisc., Thursday when the Texas governor said that he should be elected because Al Gore wasn't enough like Bill Clinton. "The vice president was seated right behind Bill Clinton...
...remark was both funny and not made entirely in jest. Vidal is anything but a gadfly in his preoccupation with U.S. public affairs. He brings to the topic a mixture of nostalgia and estrangement. He inherited strong political yearnings; he idolized his blind maternal grandfather, Senator Thomas P. Gore, a populist Democrat from Oklahoma (who makes a cameo appearance in The Golden Age). But the young Vidal's firsthand glimpses of power as he accompanied his grandfather around Washington were eventually succeeded by the realization that he lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy...