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Article: Culture vultures. (cultural tastes of presidential candidates)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 25, 1988
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THE BEST THING we've heard about Michael Dukakis this campaign is that he and Kitty walked out halfway through a showing of a 1960s Italian art movie, Rocco and His Brothers, because it bored him. The British poet Philip Larkin would have approved. Larkin, who detested the idea that people should approach the arts in a spirit of self-improvement, once himself walked out of a theater in mid-play. The realization that he was not duty-bound to stay, he later said, was one of the great moments of liberation in his life.
Mr. Dukakis's moment of glory as a Hero of Culture (Properly Understood) was revealed in a two-part New York Times story by Maureen Dowd on the ...