Word: plutocrat
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...Christmas jingle, Kitt's voice has both the sexual authority that might reduce a plutocrat to Jell-O and the little-girl smile that let her listeners in on the fun. "Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree / For me. / Been an awful good girl, Santa baby, / So hurry down the chimney tonight. ... Come and trim my Christmas tree / With some decorations bought at Tiffany. / I really do believe in you. / Let's see if you believe in me. ... Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a duplex/ And checks. / Sign your X on the line, Santa cutie...
...Everywhere I've been this year - from Jerusalem to Japan to Colombia to Italy and back again - I've heard people essentially say that America is an overweight, white plutocrat who is not only out of touch with the world but also shows no signs of wanting to grow closer to it. This is as unfair as any image - contradicted at every moment by the kindness and curiosity of many Americans - but it remains a potent one in a world where people communicate more with images than ideas and assumptions travel faster than truths. The best way to begin...
Which brings us to The Lemur. It's the story of John Glass, a formerly crusading journalist who has been reduced, by ennui and a rich marriage, to writing the biography of his father-in-law, a plutocrat with a sketchy past. Glass hires a hacker to rake up some muck. The hacker rakes up so much muck that he gets himself shot neatly through the left eye. As Black tells us (at least four times, in different ways), "Everybody has secrets, mostly guilty ones...
Edward Cole (Nicholson) is a mean old plutocrat, four times divorced, estranged from his daughter, laying down ruthless rules for the hospitals he owns. Far down the money scale, but superior in all others ways, is Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman), a polymath mechanic, faithful to his wife of 45 years, settled into a lifelong routine of diminished expectations. The only blemish on Carter's record: He smokes. In any movie directed by antitobacco activist Rob Reiner, a cigarette has to be a leading indicator of death...
...election. As for campaign contributions, and all the corruption and perversion of democracy that the pursuit of them creates in the U.S., they don't exist in Australia; a whole national election costs less to stage than a California primary. You don't need to be rich or a plutocrat's pet to run for office here...