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In fact, it gets even more confusing: Al Kamen of the WP points out that none of the Republicans pushing for easing inheritance taxes and capital gains cuts is a millionaire (if you don't count their homes), while the Democrats who had opposed these ideas include "Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin (worth as much as $90 million), White House Chief of Staff Erskine B. Bowles (who could be worth as much as $60 million), and Office of Management and Budget Director Franklin D. Raines (who might top out at a paltry $35 million)."
To quote Woodward: "Granting that 'the wishes of democracy are capricious, its instruments rude, its laws imperfect,' granting as well an appalling list of shortcomings that he abhorred--minds 'so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests'--Tocqueville still regarded democracy 'not as the best, but as the only means of preserving freedom.
If the art is so much about "real life" as you praise it for being, communicating beyond the precious confines of the art world, dealing with themes and issues that are bigger than paltry aesthetic experiences, then all credit, surely, to Citizen Rudy for plunging right in with his criticism?
Every time I begin to feel a bit guilty about my part in the Woodward hype machine ( Newsweek almost always excerpts his books, often on the cover) I reflect on my paltry powers to find out what happened at an unimportant Oval Office meeting, much less a solarium seance.
We're told of Estella's inner struggle--of the tug of war between the punishing cock-tease that her aunt has engineered her to be and her inherent decency--but the conflict isn't palpable in Paltrow's paltry performance.
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