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This is the subversively lovable Waters of Hairspray (1988) rather than the in-your-face deformity maven of Pink Flamingos (1972) and the more mainstream Cry Baby (1990) and Serial Mom (1994).
I'm indebted to Republican political maven Rich Galen and his e-mail newsletter "Mullings" for putting the Hillary interview in its proper context: It's the media's "August story," an overhyped journalistic frenzy designed to cover the fact that when the shrinks go on vacation, there is virtually no real news.
And right next to that piece is an op-ed by Washington-based public ethics maven Charles Lewis.
More important, even VandeHei eventually admits they wouldn't be particularly unqualified: Baxter, he notes, is a "defense maven" who has "written for Jane's Intelligence Review " and "chairs a ballistic missile defense advisory group for Representative Curt Weldon."
Like clockword--I mean clockwork , of course--Bill Safire's books come down the pike, each inscribed with a friendly greeting from the man described as “the language maven.”