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...skeptics snort about Camelot, but there was something during the Kennedy years that was magic. Jackie was more of that than anyone admitted for a long while. She smoothed the rough Kennedy edges. As much as anyone in those heady days, she grasped the epic dimensions of the adventure. No small portion of the glamour of the Kennedy stewardship that lives on today came from her standards of public propriety and majesty...
...most pungent cultural spillage from the early death of any rock star -- of Buddy Holly or Ritchie Valens, Jim Morrison or Sid Vicious -- may be the movie made from his life. Producers paw through old press clippings, take a quick snort of the current zeitgeist, tack on a note of mythical tragedy and voila!, a tale for our time with a hit sound track guaranteed...
...love without hurting people, without being devoured? That is a child's question, of course, and so plaintive because it can't be answered. Listening to this urgent whisper against the constraints of civilization, you can hear an old Scorsese bull snort under its breath. This is the rage of innocence...
...said Virginia Senator Charles S. Robb would run. (Despite the fact that Robb had a seven-year affair and hangs out with lots of people who snort cocaine.) Then it was John H. Sunni, the irascible chief of staff who was eventually fired because Bush couldn't find a single person who liked...
...founder of Time, Henry Luce, would snort at the notion that his company should provide a value-free forum for the exchange of ideas. In Luce's system, editors were supposed to make value judgments and promote the truth as they saw it. Time has moved far from its old Lucean rigidity -- far enough to allow for dissenting essays like this one. That evolution is a good thing, as long as it's not a handy excuse for abandoning all standards...