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...economic policymaker, whose popularity is fickle and whose accomplishments, like those of most politicians, are not likely to stand the test of time. Would an economist have been selected 10 years ago, shortly after Black Monday and on the eve of a major recession? I doubt it. By contrast, Ralph Ellison (Commencement speaker in 1974) will always be a great novelist, Oscar Arias (speaker in 1988) will always be a crusader for peace and Colin Powell (speaker in 1993) will always be a military hero...
...business that turns models into old women at 22 and increasingly ignores the customer who falls too far beyond Felicity's demographics is dominated in the U.S. by a trio nearing pension age. For much of the past two decades, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Ralph Lauren have ruled American style. Although none will retire tomorrow, the triumvirate occupies so much space in department stores, on the sides of buses and consequently in the public consciousness that it has become tremendously difficult for young designers to break through. It says something about the contemporary American fashion scene that...
Perhaps you remember the episode of The Honeymooners where the Kramdens take a break from their marital fractiousness to go out dancing. When they get home, they warmly recall the sweet savor of their romantic prime. Ralph and Alice were, what--33, 35? Yet they saw their good old days as past; the greatest thrill they could have at their advanced age was to reminisce...
...judge from the script by John August (a comer; no, an arriver), Ralph's Market in Hollywood is stocked with sirloin starlets. Katie Holmes, she of the angel-slut face, is there from Dawson's Creek. Sarah Polley--with Creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon eyes and a mouth born to pout (some clever director will cast her as Heather Graham's younger, savvier sister)--is a cashier. Party of Five's dreamboat Scott Wolf is in Polley's check-out line. The film isn't five minutes old and already you suspect you'll be entranced even if it stinks...
...Ralph Waldo Emerson, the least Balkan of men, formulated the American theology of forward spin. He might have been speaking to the Balkans when he asked, "Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory...