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...complain that Buffett merely romanticizes an elapsed era which is of little relevance today. But the past three decades have proved to be a dry spell for romantics, who are a vanishing breed as it is. Barraged with the likes of Joseph McCarthy, Sirhan Sirhan, Gordon Liddy and Rosie Ruiz, we have been wanting for heroes. And it will be a long time before anyone romanticizes budget cuts--besides they're boring things to sing about...
...cases of imprisoned Cubans one by one, it eventually became clear that many of the suspected "criminals" were nothing of the sort. Some had been jailed in Cuba only for misdemeanors or for acts not considered illegal in the U.S., and others were innocent of virtually any wrongdoing. Ignacio Ruiz de Armes, for example, told TIME Correspondent Anne Constable that he had been jailed in Cuba for refusing to serve in the armed forces as well as for stealing a boat to escape from the island. Says he: "There are many here who do not represent any kind of threat...
...novelist, who saw himself as "Pole, Catholic and Gentleman," left his native country at age 16. Between then and the age of 40, he voyaged all over the world, soaking up South American background for stories like Nostromo and Caspar Ruiz, working on sailing ships, where his experiences served as the basis for The Nigger of the Narcissus. He joined a steamship expedition up the Congo, which became the setting for Heart of Darkness. The circumstances of his life would seem to require little exaggeration, but Conrad loved to romanticize everything, including himself. As Tennant shows, he probably never...
Richard Nixon may one day run for the U.S. Senate. Rosie Ruiz may run in another Boston Marathon. But it is a mystery why Jerry Lewis would choose to run around, fall down, go cross-eyed or winsome in one more movie comedy. Comedy is a taxonomic term here, not evaluative. The only people laughing at Lewis' first film released since 1970 are in the movie-supporting players earning their keep by pampering the star-director-screenwriter. Jer, 55, is still the goony kid from the '50s, talking while eating a doughnut, parading in drag, leading a children...
Perhaps this is all the reflection of a culture fed up with liars. We are tired of Rosie Ruiz pretending to win the Boston Marathon, tired of watching a psychic and three networks show us a miraculous, false prediction of the assassination attempt. We are trying to forget that a Pulitzer Prize-winning news story was totally fictitious. We have already forgotten we had a president and secretary of state who lied through their teeth, and instead have made them best-selling authors...