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...niece Beth turned 42 this week. (Note to readers making quick calculations about my age: my brother is muuuuuuch older than I.) She?s the oldest of four girls who, though born too late to have heard the material firsthand, somehow knew most of the songs of that miracle year, 1957, by the time they were in grammar school. At family gatherings the girls would render old songs in a saucy fashion, occasionally accompanied on the tenor guitar by their doting uncle. Now Beth Corliss is Beth Silvestri, married to an Olympic yachtsman and living in San Francisco. The girl...
...still trying to fill in the last of his past?s blank spots, which continue to give him guilty, sweaty dreams. His many enemies, led by Joan Allen and Brian Cox - she?s efficient and chilly, he?s passionate and scary - remain convinced he has a hidden agenda that somehow threatens Western Civilization As We Know It. We, of course, are just along for the ride, which, as director Paul Greengrass conducts it, consists of a succession of chases in cars and on foot, punctuated by large numbers of sudden deaths...
...Somehow the thought of returning to watch the convention’s evening slate of speakers didn’t seem nearly as interesting in the immediate aftermath...
...another peace rally) as that he cut a low-rent lyrical folk-pop album at the end of the decade. Sure, cynics might brand the DNC itself a dad trying too hard to be cool, but I for one appreciated the myriad nods to a decade when change somehow managed both to happen on a huge scale and to aim far higher than it could ever reach...
...order to believe that this threatens heterosexual marriage, you have to believe it's a zero-sum game. If gay couples get married, then somehow straights will not. But why not both? Why cannot marriage bring us together rather than tear us apart? The answer, alas, is that this President has decided it will help him politically to tear us apart. His base is restless over government spending and Iraq, and this is a means to placate and energize it. If that means turning a tiny minority into a lethal threat to civilization, so be it. If that minority...