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...Veruca constantly changed her mind about what she wanted. The loud, brash, and hypercompetitive former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani most resembles Violet Beauregaurde. Consistently exaggerating his record when talking about “cleaning up New York City” and obsessively mentioning 9/11 in nearly every speech, his pride mirrors Violet’s, who embellished her own accomplishments in the hopes of intimidating the other children. Meanwhile, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) doesn’t seem to want to be President, nor is he working too hard on the campaign trail. Many who know...
...music, chosen by director Sniderman, also battles with some of the actors’ elegantly delivered soliloquies. It is hard to concentrate on a sorrowful speech when a woman is light-heartedly tra-la-la-ing in a foreign language in the background...
...learning such as Harvard were key in bringing together members of the country’s disparate Latina community. “All these people have the same identity but experience it in a different way,” she said, speaking of Latinas, in an interview before her speech. Schools like Harvard, she went on, “help people find common ground.” They are also important, Londoño said, in educating Latinas of their opportunities—“in helping them articulate their future action and strengthening everyone in their own individual...
...Barack Obama would emerge only after short speeches from his wife Michelle and his friend Oprah. Winfrey used her patented mix of girlfriend-style dish ("When Gayle and I talk... mmmm-mmm... we also talk about real things...") and campaign-style sermonizing ("Experience... means nothing unless that person is accountable for the judgments they made during the time they had.") That recipe was calibrated to reassure the audience that neither Oprah nor Obama was compromising here - that Obama's ambition to be a candidate of nobility would not be diminished by Oprah's status as a consumer guide. She even...
...have enough time? The evening cocktail parties were just getting started in Bali as former Vice President Al Gore was accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, thousands of miles away. In his speech, Gore called for bold and immediate action from the negotiators in Bali, including a universal global cap on carbon emissions. "We must quickly mobilize our civilization," he said. "Something basic is wrong. We are wrong and we must make it right...