Monday, January 07, 2008
Saul and Hill
Watching the charmless Hillary last night, I suddenly remembered something Saul Bellow said about her when I interviewed him in 1995. She is, he said, 'a broad'. He meant, I presume, she was like one of those tough, knowing, life-worn women, usually seen in dark gangster films. Or something like that. Anyway, the accuracy of the term made the old man smile and, thirteen years later, with Hill toughing it out in the face of defeat, it made me laugh.
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He's not to be called Bell then?
ReplyDeleteNever mind, ten out of ten on the maths, Mr. A. I love it when journalists save me the trouble of getting the calculator out...
She's looking less like a gangster's moll and more like Bette Davis in All About Eve.
ReplyDeletesome say her face was once used for the prototype of the cabbage patch doll. so are all molls broads but not all broads are molls (as we might replace the terms with the english 'toms' and 'birds')?
ReplyDeleteShe's just not very likeable either, as came across when she was asked why people didn't like her as much as they do Obama. These days you have to be somewhat likaable to get elected to the top job. It's the reason why Brown will never be elected as PM
ReplyDeleteShe's some broad, alright. Bill looked over the hill the other day and Hill looked, well, bilious. Game on.
ReplyDeleteSomething went severely wrong last night. I wanted her to prove her worth but I just watched and said within seconds - she's lost it, it's over. Mind you, it was desperate to see politicians who should be of the highest calibre possible in a tough head to head and come off as such paltry individuals.
ReplyDeleteHillary missed her true vocation as the sort of PC harridan that becomes provost or dean at some second rate US liberal arts college where offensive words are patrolled rather than effective actions undertaken. That's partly why Obama is attracting so many liberal-minded Republicans.
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