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...true, by all accounts. Hannah Nixon was a saint. Of course, if Nixon had decided that his goodbye speech called for impartial candor, he might have added: "And my father was a lout...
...morning that Richard Nixon left the White House, he told the staff, with tears in his eyes: "My mother was a saint...
...There seems to be a sort of presidential configuration - saintly mother, loutish father. You see the pattern in Ronald Reagan's parents back in Illinois, and, God knows, you see it in John Kennedy's - Mother Rose off to mass every morning (if not off to Paris to buy clothes), and Papa Joe off to Gloria Swanson's bed in Hollywood. Bill Clinton's mother Virginia Kelley, though no saint in any sense that would impress Rome, had a saint's devotion to her boy, while his father died in an accident before Bill was born and his stepfather enacted...
Although Japanese designers like Miyake and Hanae Mori appeared on the international fashion scene in the 1970s, it was a decade later when Paris really took notice. The era was one of excess: Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler were focused on enhancing shoulders with exaggerated padding; Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent were creating rococo fantasies of beading, silk and ruffles. Amid the froufrous and frills, Kawakubo and Yamamoto rolled out their collections and set Paris on its ear. The clothes were revolutionary, shocking - stark, unstructured and overwhelmingly black. Bewildered critics dubbed Kawakubo's first Paris collection in 1981 - with...
...director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. "Southern white ministers were the center of a kind of civil religion that sacralized the Confederacy after the war was over to help keep it alive, so they made Robert E. Lee into a saint and Stonewall Jackson into a martyr." Outposts of rebel theology can still be found. At the Confederate Presbyterian Church in Wiggins, Miss., parishioners enter the chapel by passing through a room lined with framed photographs of Generals Lee, Forrest and Jackson. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Pastor John...