Posted on 07/21/2005 11:14:08 PM PDT by kingu
It has been a long time since so much syrupy nostalgia has been in evidence at the White House. But Tuesday night, when President Bush announced his choice for the next associate justice of the Supreme Court, it was hard not to marvel at the 1950s-style tableau vivant that was John Roberts and his family.
There they were -- John, Jane, Josie and Jack -- standing with the president and before the entire country. The nominee was in a sober suit with the expected white shirt and red tie. His wife and children stood before the cameras, groomed and glossy in pastel hues -- like a trio of Easter eggs, a handful of Jelly Bellies, three little Necco wafers. There was tow-headed Jack -- having freed himself from the controlling grip of his mother -- enjoying a moment in the spotlight dressed in a seersucker suit with short pants and saddle shoes. His sister, Josie, was half-hidden behind her mother's skirt. Her blond pageboy glistened. And she was wearing a yellow dress with a crisp white collar, lace-trimmed anklets and black patent-leather Mary Janes.
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I despise these people. When I saw Mrs. Roberts and the children, I thought "How nice that some people still no how to dress."
Robin probably wears flip flops to weddings.
People who don't have a long svelte torso shouldn't wear tight dropped-waist dresses.
Thanks for the picture. I was going to get it if it was not posted somewhere!
She seems to have a problem with pastels and the fair blondes that they flatter-lots of 'code phrases' here about 'pastels' and 'blonde pageboy' types-she might as well come right out and say 'white bread'(it's politically incorrect to not have that 'flava' these days)-is there something more than the usual liberal petty spitefulness going on here?
Was this the same writer who raked Katherine Harris over the coals in 2000?
But, but, but ... (and yes, I'm calling her names) - Hellary! wears pink. I'll bet that's OK.
You are right. There is a definite racist subtext. So 90s.
I can see you ain't too technical. Never hesitate to put such a question on this forum.
First of all, you gotta realize it ain't easy pumping taupe. It is the sludge that comes outa deep wells before you get the crude oil. It is caused by Republicans polluting the water table for private gain. If it gets on your shoes, you are stuck with that color forever, dude. So be careful.
Bless me....... bless you!
Jenna and Barbara, in Uniform
Profile Shows Pretty Smiles, Not Personalities, of the President's Daughters
By Robin Givhan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 14, 2004; Page C01
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Post’s Givhan Needles Vogue’s Puff Job on Bush Twins
You have to read nine paragraphs into Robin Givhan’s critique of Vogue’s August story on the Bush twins before the Washington Post’s fashion writer takes her first dig at the magazine.
“This is not the kind of magazine that traffics in humanizing reality—one that finds reassurance in warts, foibles and missteps,” wrote Givhan in Wednesday’s Post. And later: “In Vogue, there are no pimples. Everyone glows.”
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Despite the recent craze over the stylish daughters, Robin Givhan of The Washington Post insists that their high-profile fashion choices are not genuine. "The clothes transform the daughters into archetypes," Givhan says in her article, "Jenna and Barbara, in Uniform." "They do not reflect the personality of the wearers. Their debut has all of the intimacy of a state dinner receiving line," says Givhan.
"They wear another kind of uniform," she continues, "one that speaks of youth, hipness and moneyed polish. The clothes tease the viewer, offering the faintest whiff of the twins' personalities," which she claims have gone from indiscreet college students to Stepford daughters."
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Condi Rice: Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan said the look was something straight out of "The Matrix."
Washington Post style writer, Robin Givhan critiques:
"Rice's coat and boots speak of sex and power -- such a volatile combination, and one that in political circles rarely leads to anything but scandal. When looking at the image of Rice in Wiesbaden, the mind searches for ways to put it all into context. It turns to fiction, to caricature. To shadowy daydreams. Dominatrix! It is as though sex and power can only co-exist in a fantasy. When a woman combines them in the real world, stubborn stereotypes have her power devolving into a form that is purely sexual."
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Kathrine Harris: Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan said her skin, quote, 'had been plastered and powdered to the texture of pre-war walls in need of a skin coat.'
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“The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower,” Robin Givhan, The Washington Post’s fashion writer, wrote in the newspaper’s Friday editions.
“And, indeed, the vice president looked like an awkward boy amid the well-dressed adults,” Givhan wrote.
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WaPo's Robin Givhan argues that John Bolton's haircut shows he lacks "respect for the job" of U.N. ambassador.
Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan, who today attacked UN Ambassador designate John Bolton: “His attire was not merely bland but careless. His hair was so poorly cut, it bordered on rude.” She wisecracked that Bolton’s locks looked like he had “shaken his hair dry in the manner of an Afghan hound.” His mustache looked ”like it should be attached to geek glasses and a rubber nose.”
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Givhan, Robin. “A First Lady's Lasting Look; Jacqueline Kennedy Brought Elegance to Politics.” Washington Post. 25 April 2001.
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Fortunes are changing in fashion
Web posted December 30, 1998
By Robin Givhan
The Washington Post
Clinton as cover girl: Hillary Rodham Clinton's appearance on the cover of American Vogue forever shook off her image as an unstylish first lady. More than that, the cover, coupled with the pictures inside, revealed a feminine, sexy and sophisticated woman who should be neither pitied nor feared.
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Washington Post reporter Robin Givhan quoted Donna Brazile, Al Gore's campaign manager, deep in a glowing Nov. 16 profile.
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Robin Givhan
George W. Bush “has enough hair to fully cover his head, but it is a dull gray thatch that is unremarkable and never seems to glisten even when he is standing in direct sunlight.”
Dick Cheney “has thinning white hair, and the few strands that are there are so lacking in body and bounce that in the presidential hair wars, they don't even register as wisps.”
John Kerry’s “hair may have turned silver, but he has arrived at age 60 seemingly without having lost a strand. What man wouldn't gloat, just a little?”
John Edwards makes Givhan’s heart pitter-patter, writing in one ardent passage that his “hair has regularly been referred to as a mop, but that suggests that it is messy or unkempt. Nothing could be further from the truth. He has a precise haircut with artfully clipped layers. His hair is a beautiful shade of chocolate brown with honey-colored highlights. It is not particularly long, but it is smooth and shiny. It is boyish hair not because of the style but because it looks so healthy and buoyant and practically cries out to be tousled the same way a well-groomed golden retriever demands to be nuzzled.”
Condi boot... Robin green.
Check out the pic of the "fashion queen" in 177!
hillary clinton's equal and inapposite reactions seem to be, at first blush, instances of the immutable First Law of The Betrayed and Humiliated Wife: Outdo the errant hubby's doxy...at all cost. Thus, Vanity Fair's glamorous Marilyn-Monroe spread of Monica's digitally reduced spread was answered by Vogue's lushly Elizabethan, gauzy-focus, hindquarter-cropped-pleated-and-flounced, Queen-Hillary-for-President cover. And now we have hillary clinton doing a Martha Stewart, who herself, is purported to have been "done" by the aforementioned errant rogue (notwithstanding the plain fact that Martha is more well-known for her tarts than for being one). hillary clinton's Revolutionary Entertaining |
Yeah, those underarms....
Bingo!
So, where's the Glamour Magazine "Don't" black bar across her eyes? That dress is too tight for her, with uneven "underneath" coverage.
this author, by his choice of descriptors, stands exposed and self-condemned as a vile little toilet fish.
Not only does her dress not fit, her underwear doesn't fit. The sweater or throw or whatever she has in her hand is the wrong color pink - too close to complement, too far to match. And the hemline is uneven, she seems to have grabbed her purse and shoes out of the closet at random, her jewelry doesn't match, and what on earth is she doing wearing a black day-wear wristwatch?
Talk about the pot calling the kettle!
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