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...prime-time press conferences, not to mention terrorist attacks, hurricanes and wars in real time. But television also set off a chain reaction that transformed the very nature of politics. "This is the beginning of a whole new concept," said a very young Roger Ailes as he stage-managed Richard Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. "This is the way they'll be elected forevermore. The next guys up will have to be performers." Television brought other changes as well. Suddenly, politicians were able to use televised advertising to communicate in a more powerful and intimate (and negative) way than ever...
...RICHARD ARMSTRONG Washington...
This Book is about a middle-aged man named Richard Novak who, having made a bundle and retired early, and having split from his wife and son, is now living in a state of isolation and emotional shutdown in a fancy house in Los Angeles. One day Richard suffers an intense, mysterious pain and is rushed to a hospital. The doctors find nothing, but he's sufficiently shaken to conduct a review of his life and how he's living it: "He couldn't cover everything up anymore, he needed to feel everything...
...capsule, where Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland fixed up the old barn and, presto, put on a show. Which is only about as gay as... well, as South Park, which often breaks into Broadway-worthy songs composed by Trey Parker, possibly the last heterosexual to write tuneful parodies of Richard Rodgers and Jerry Bock. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to see South Park take on HSM in its current season...
...Richard Shaw, who served as Yale’s dean of admissions from 1993 to 2005, told the New York Times Magazine that Yale admitted Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Taliban’s former chief envoy, because the school had once had a student of similar caliber apply but that it had “lost him to Harvard” and “didn’t want that to happen again...