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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (26809)	1/8/1999 9:23:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

Television Highlights Discordance Between History and Emotional Force nytimes.com On that subject, sort of, we have this tv review piece from the good gray Times. It's all pretty amusing, after a fashion, but I liked this part. Hyde's reading was uninflected; he kept his eyes down as he read from papers on a lectern. It was impossible to know whether he was determined to get it right, dying to get it over with, or both. Later, reporters convincingly explained his demeanor. Bob Franken on CNN said Hyde described himself as "depressed and jittery," and Chip Reid on MSNBC reported that Hyde said he was "moved by the solemnity" of the act and "saddened" at having to do it. Yet there was also a practical reason for the aura of detachment: because Hyde was not reading from a teleprompter, he was not providing that illusion of eye contact viewers have become so accustomed to. That odd act of reading from papers on camera shaped the impression of the afternoon session as well. When Rehnquist was sworn in by Senate president pro tem Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., the senator was hunched forward reading the oath and Rehnquist looked as if he were holding his hand over the Thurmond's head. It was an eccentric image that made them look disconcertingly like a vaudeville team. Despite the democratic style, the day offered reminders that one of the oldest themes in American culture is the secret longing for an aristocracy. Reporters devoted a ludicrous amount of filler time to the four gold stripes Rehnquist had fixed to his robes, a touch borrowed from a character in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "Iolanthe." The affectation was unanimously characterized as as endearingly fanciful. The very model of a modern major general, it seems. In a rare moment of tv, the wife and I spied this sartorial splendor and broke out laughing. Looked like the judicial robe got crossed with a letterman's sweater. I think Rehnquist still remembers Nixon's Swiss Guard - style costume proposal for the secret service.