[kingu]

We all can surmise that the writer longs for the smelly 60s and the shaggy-haired Woodward/Bernstein 70s.

Likely the author is more into the runways of Milan and Paris than anything so stogy as last week's fashions. Be that as it may, the point of the article wasn't the clothing style, but to mock the candidate for the Supreme Court. Such clothes are far from alien to that building, nor to the guests that visit, so the only reason why it would come up as an issue now is as a thinly veiled attack against him, and if you're going to attack, at least have a good point...

Considering how many cards Hallmark sells each year with that dismal Christmas scene, as the author alludes to, perhaps he or she might notice that Hallmark always sells out of that card.

Guess the people of America are more than comfortable with that image, and the author might want to take a moment or three to integrate that into their brain.

[Vision Thing]

Likely the author is more into the runways of Milan and Paris than anything so stogy as last week's fashions.

You're right! Any fruitloop who uses "tableau vivant" as a term of encroachment probably feels more at home on Rue du Rivoli than on America's Main Street. Now that you've pointed it out, I cannot imagine a hippy or a Bob Woodward using french adjectives to insult someone. Despite their questionable masculinity, at least they aren't as catty and effeminate as the author of this article.