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Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one.
For purposes of comparison, rent the video of Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend --amid all the chatter is a brief scene of Mireille Darc emerging from a flaming wreck that, as a crash-sex icon, beats anything in Crash . And in the mostly ludicrous 1987 opera-video movie Aria is a sequence by Ken Russell, of all people, that conveys sheer rococo horror: A young woman sees herself being anointed and bedecked with jewels, but we then see that she is in an emergency ward, and that her jewels are in reality car-crash wounds.
Law & Order executive producer Dick Wolf's latest law-enforcement drama is anointed the best among the midseason shows.
He earned everything he has, unlike softies like Bush and Forbes, who had the world handed to them, and Clinton, who was anointed by Fulbright and got his own free ride!
Bartiromo, in short, has been anointed the new face of the new boom in business news.