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Celebrities demand flattering representation as the price of their cooperation, and no one is better at flattering in a sophisticated yet intimate way than Leibovitz.
The Post story refers to Clinton's appeals in these appearances for the expansion of individual liberties and his polite but unambiguous condemnation of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, but then says he's spent far more time flattering Chinese audiences than challenging them.
I recommend the Katharine Hepburn metaphor as a gentle and flattering way to make this request.
There's something flattering about people thinking I was capable of writing a best seller about a New York cop when I was a teen-ager in Los Angeles, or that I could write one book after another in my 20s, while at the same time reporting one newspaper story after another.
[A]nd should the flattering expectation of obtaining this advantage for ourselves be considered entirely as chimerical?