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...medium length dark wavy hair with a fair complexion...
...Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?" the First Lady said when asked whether the newest news medium needed curbing. "There used to be this old saying that the lie can be halfway around the world before the truth gets its boots on. Well, today, the lie can be twice around the world before the truth gets out of bed to find its boots...
...that TWA Flight 800 was shot down by the U.S. Navy--where the stories were nutty and baseless. The Clintern saga certainly is not baseless, although the comic seediness of it, in contrast to the high tragedy of 1963, can be seen as a telling comment on the new medium. After all, the Internet beat TV and print to this story, and ultimately forced it on them, for one simple reason: lower standards...
...nice to be a TV star (Seinfeld owns an additional 60 or so cars, not all of them Porsches, which he warehouses in an airport hangar in Santa Monica). And now that even Mikhail Gorbachev has begun doing commercials for Pizza Hut, it seems pointless to argue with the medium that so dominates our lives and culture. Most of us threw in the towel long ago. But not Jerry Seinfeld. While the rest of America has been off getting college credit for studying Silver Spoons, the star, one of the executive producers of the situation comedy that bears his last...
...habitual medium," he says matter-of-factly during the course of a long afternoon and evening's interview. "Most people aren't really entertained. What they need is they need to watch TV. Entertainment is almost a luxury item." As the day wears on, Seinfeld returns to the subject, this time even more adamantly: "Television is like a flyer somebody sticks on your windshield. Who gives a damn what's on it? It's iridescent wallpaper. Sometimes I think people just like the light on their faces...