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David Westin has been anointed Roone Arledge's successor as head of the news division, but Arledge seems reluctant to cede his power.
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.
Now that most have made it, the ethnic remnant that once ruled Tammany Hall, Albany, and Boston, and anointed the governors and presidents, has retreated into victimology.
Tiger Woods won the Masters golf tournament and was anointed a Transcendent Sports Phenomenon.
Quayle may be a formidable candidate, but the subsequent article explains that George W. Bush has already been anointed the inevitable one.