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Patrick—a onetime Dunster resident, former litigator for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights in the Clinton administration—said that the law had “suspect origins” and was originally intended to prevent out-of-state interracial couples from marrying...
...Cause he was standing on the sidelines last season in jeans and no helmet, out for the year with a back injury. So while I’m mesmerized by his orange locks, maybe green is the more operative color, as in inexperienced. Fortunately, the Crusaders run defense is suspect, allowing Northeastern nearly 200 rushing yards in a home loss on Saturday, and the Crimson has a little tailback who goes by the name of Clifton Dawson. He’s basically the greatest. Give him a lead in the second half and he’ll wear these guys...
...whodunit? We'll get to that shortly. But first, the audience. TIFF audiences are among the most generous and enthusiastic in the world, but they gave Death of a President only lukewarm applause over the closing credits. They'd been so pumped up, I suspect, that the film itself almost had to be a letdown. Engrossing but not enthralling, Death of a President let the air out of its own balloon. It was hard not to be impressed by the expertise of the intercutting (archive footage, staged demonstrations and fictional interviews), by the seamlessness of the photo-realism and photoshopping...
...movie's red herring is the Syrian suspect. He is superficially plausible both because of the plague of Islamic jihadism and because of our memory of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian who in 1968 shot Robert F. Kennedy because, he said, of Bobby's support for Israel in the Six-Day War. If Sirhan was indeed the lone gunman, then the assassination (which is dramatized in the Emilio Estevez movie Bobby, also playing in Toronto) could be said to mark the birth of Arab terrorism on U.S. soil...
...weight of history leads us to another suspect. Look to your almanacs, folks. Who kills American presidents? Americans...