Word: blue-blooded
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...into what style writers excitedly called an era of elegance. OK, it may have been your grandfather?s idea of elegance - shiny, mothball-smelling tuxes and glazed denture smiles - but it was certainly a change. From 1989-1993, George Bush Sr. exuded a casual richness, rather like the goofy blue-blood airs of the father of the Jon Lovitz character in the animated series ?The Critic...
...slings and arrows of outrageous fortune may have gotten a little weird for George W. Bush Thursday night, as fellow Republican presidential candidates cast him as a blend of Marie Antoinette and a Southern plantation owner - all in the course of a genteel policy exchange. Blue-blood publisher Steve Forbes led the charge, accusing the Texas governor of "betraying" Americans with his tax plan and proposals to consider raising the retirement age. Then arch-conservative Alan Keyes wrapped his criticism of the Bush tax plan in an out-of-left-field race reference to "Massah Bush." And the picture...
...Bush's demeanor set him apart in the eyes of many undergraduates. A Texan with a blue-blood pedigree, Bush stood out both as an impressive name and as a unique personality...
...strange to say, has been his entire family, which, for all its calamities, has remained a family in the public view. Love or hate the Kennedys, there is no family in American history like them--not the Adamses, not the Roosevelts. They may lack the blue-blood lineage, but they have stuck together (even if the glue has sometimes been messy), have forged and sustained a civilization before our eyes. Kennedy was headed for a family wedding when he went down. When one of them goes, the ideal of family is at once injured and made intense, and, divorce statistics...
Although the showier role belongs to Wyle, who ably trades the blue-blood reserve of ER's Carter for Jobs' loose-limbed swagger, the movie's secret weapon is Anthony Michael Hall, whose work here will startle viewers who recall only the nerdy teen who kept hitting on Molly Ringwald in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. "This was a huge opportunity for me," says Hall, clearly thrilled at this escape from Ex-Child Star Hell. "I saw it as an incredible gift--a chance to reinvent myself...