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Asked by radio pundit Laura Ingraham, “Do you have plans to invade France next?,” Bush’s Chief of Staff Andy Card replied “Laura—Good to read your words. Good job at the rally last weekend. Virginia wine is fine with me.” I think that was a drug reference, but I can’t be sure...
Either that, or she likes to “mellow out” on that sweet, sweet Virginia wine...
...G.O.P. Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia said the reversal proved "that the American people have a strong voice in deciding what is fair and appropriate." One problem: the American people - already equipped to exercise that voice with their remotes - hadn't seen The Reagans. Nor had its critics or defenders, since the controversial work - still being edited when it was yanked - did not yet exist. A few partisans saw leaked scripts; most based their attacks on quotes in the press...
...newly married and youthful Senator from Massachusetts at home with a toddler in Georgetown, the moments of total loneliness on airport ramps and in strange motels when few people knew who Jack and Jackie really were, the dejected Kennedy who thought he was losing it all in West Virginia or Oregon, the hoopla of the convention and the moment when Jack asked Lyndon Johnson to take the vice-presidential nomination...
Some might also find fault with The River as an ideological statement. The play found evocative power in its regular mentions of “Ophelia, who died because she lacked a vocabulary” and of Virginia Woolf’s suicide. Those references, however, combined with the play’s final image—a woman, satiated by a man, privately reveling in her own unclothed body—to present a worldview that would have seemed a bit naive even before midcentury articulations of feminism, and which verges on being downright retrograde...