“I’M looking forward to moving forward” sounds just like George W. Bush but it’s a safe bet that Election 2006 cured him of this particular locution. His days of looking forward are so manifestly behind him that we can only hope that he doesn’t spend the next two years revisiting his days of wine and Four Roses.
The glitzy cable coverage of Election Night made me look backward to a time when spats-wearing clerks on ladders chalked in returns on a giant blackboard set up in the ballroom of one of those grand old hotels with marble floors and gilded acanthus leaves that were said to have something called “character.” This year’s news studios looked like nightclubs-not just any nightclub, either, but the one designed by Salvador Dalí for the dream sequence in Hitchcock’s Spellbound.
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