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Reagan believed the office symbolized the dignity of the presidency. And [Clinton] to me was a man bringing in truck-driver values. We have had vulgar Presidents before, and they have not been bad Presidents. Andrew Jackson was just as vulgar as Bill Clinton. There's something fleshly and uncontrolled, and defiantly vulgar, about Clinton, which I think has been characteristic of his presidency. I think the presidency has lost a large part of its dignity in his tenure...
...supposed to feel sorry for these people, and be inspired by their brave struggles to recover from all those wounds. But some of us are bound to take umbrage at the film's vulgar manipulations. Set in terminally tacky Las Vegas, Pay It Forward is as rigged as a casino slot machine, preying on people's hopes but paying off only for the house...
...could argue that what keeps America the world's only superpower today - especially economically - is precisely the same vulgar culture that Lieberman reviles. Crappy American movies imprint the American consciousness across every continent; millions of little Elians the world over go to bed and dream of Lara Croft; French kids with an entire national tradition of great cinema are instead obsessed with "South Park" (Eric Cartman's face is more ubiquitous in the French countryside than bitter, entitled-feeling farmers). America doesn't dominate the world because it fears us; we dominate because the rest of the world wants...
...summarily dismissed. But "Utah: home of that snotty Sundance Film Festival" pleased the Senator greatly. "Robert Redford is a liberal Democrat. What do you expect?" he said. And after we tried to come up with a line about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Senator, afraid of seeming vulgar, wisely said, "I think we had better be careful about the choir." Someone was still feeling burned from bringing up the pubic hair on the Coke can during the Clarence Thomas hearings...
...bright new CD proves that the announcement was premature. Art Official Intelligence has an impressively eclectic lineup of guests, including Busta Rhymes, Chaka Khan and members of the Beastie Boys (Mike D and Ad Rock). De La Soul's songs, like the warm, stuttery Set the Mood, lack the vulgar, low-riding punch of gangsta rap, but they find strength in invention...