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Benjamin W. Dreyfus '01 is a showman. One can only imagine what the self-proclaimed "long-haired liberal" is thinking. Are his antics a campaign tactic? Or is this Dreyfus in his natural habitat? He could be the John McCain of the Undergraduate Council, exploiting his image as an out-and-out weirdo the same way McCain is capitalizing on the media's current fascination with his temper. Or he could be the Alan E. Keyes '72, with his outrageous allegations and proposals, pushed to the margins of an already marginal race. Dreyfus wants Harvard to regress 30 years...
...night in 1966, Gore, his roommate Tommy Lee Jones '69 and Somerby performed a play in honor of Somerby's grandfather, a 19th-century traveling showman...
...Hampshire the people who come out to see McCain know their issues and aren't looking for a showman. They find a candidate who doesn't appear artful--he stalks around like a boxer waiting for the bell, twists his wedding ring on his finger, talks a blue streak and then says, "Whoa," as if snapping out of a trance. But he can be artful. Describing his opposition to the G.O.P.'s proposed across-the-board spending cut, he says, "It takes courage to eliminate pork-barrel spending," invoking his war-hero past without mentioning it. He sorts through...
...Music Hall had three sires--John D. Rockefeller Jr., son of the world's richest man, whose eponymous Depression-defying venture in urban optimism was the greatest accomplishment of his life; S.L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, a monomaniacal showman whose idea of appropriate scale ranged from enormous to gargantuan; and Donald Deskey, a design buccaneer whose best-known work, eclipsing even the Music Hall, would be the Crest toothpaste tube. But what these three unlikely collaborators built, and what renovation architect Hugh Hardy and his colleagues at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates have now reinvigorated, changed the course of American interior design...
...anything but a triumphalist. There is no replacement for him, though he has hopes for his son Franklin. More than a third of our nation continues to believe in salvation only through a regeneration founded upon personal conversion to the Gospel, and Graham epitomizes that belief. A great showman, something of a charismatic, Graham exploited his gifts as an offering to America's particular way with the spirit. Some might have wished for more, but Graham honestly recognized his limitations, and his career nears its close with poignancy and a sense of achievement...