Monday, December 13, 2004

WOLCOTT ON KERIK

James Wolcott gets his entry for Most Gorgeously Wrought Paragraph of the Year in just under the wire, and I think it's a real contender:

Kerik exuded too much quiet authority and dramatic effect, trying a shade too hard to convey that he knew things he couldn't speak of and was working from the deep inside, privy to secrets that he carried locked inside the bank vault of his barrel chest. I could see how this tough-guy shtick--which obviously wasn't entirely shtick, but a tough streak that had been refined into an urban lawman persona--would impress fake swaggarts like, well, George Bush, who likes to play dress-up as a range hand and fighter pilot to show what a Hungry man entree he is.


Excellent.

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