In Time’s profile on Mrs. Fragrant Arnie, Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Matt Cooper began with the saucy stuff: “Five years ago, when she gave the commencement speech at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., Maria Shriver relied on the usual bromides. ‘Gotta have laughter.’ ‘Pinpoint your passion.’ ‘Be willing to fail.’ But then she turned to the subject of sex, and brought the Catholic graduates to their feet. ‘Forgive me, Mommy,’ she said, and went on to argue that womankind’s great contribution to civilization is ‘awesome creative sex’. She later wrote a book outlining her philosophy of life, in which she felt compelled to reveal, ‘There’s no Viagra within a 50-mile radius of our house.’”