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#1 2008-02-27 10:06:32
- Marc Grayson
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William Buckley Jr RIP
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/business/media/27cnd-buckley.html?hp
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#2 2008-02-27 10:12:55
- Voltaire's Bastard
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Re: William Buckley Jr RIP
“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”
#3 2008-02-27 10:18:21
- Tony Ventresca
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Re: William Buckley Jr RIP
Didn't the Great Mantoni accuse him of being a fake WASP?
#4 2008-02-27 10:26:15
- edhillpr
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Re: William Buckley Jr RIP
Buckley RIP,
I always found his writing entertaining and sometimes funny. At least he could dress well, which is more than some press types can accomplish now. I think he was featured in numerous photos on a FNB forum thread a month ago. I always liked that old style - academic look.
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#5 2008-02-27 10:32:36
- mike
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Re: William Buckley Jr RIP
I like that his clothes were often rumpled and frayed.
You love him? He is hephaistion.
#6 2008-02-27 10:35:27
- Taylor McIntyre
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Re: William Buckley Jr RIP
It's always sad when anyone dies... Poor chap.
My interest is in clothes. Buckley put on a good turn for the cameras acting the part of a kind of a WASP, but I'm more interested in him as a dresser.
Best pic of him is on the cover of the John Judis biog. Too lazy to check the spelling of John's name even though the book is only 2 ft away from me here in my rather dusty study.
Eh. He's OK. Looks the part & all that.
Other pics he looks not quite so good.
His politics make him the AAAT pin up boy...
And that's OK. I see AAAT as a NeoCon thing anyway.
Remember him like this -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/William-F-Buckley-Jr-Conservatives/dp/0743217977/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204133628&sr=8-13
Curious chair.
Jim
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#9 2008-02-27 10:55:05
- Marc Grayson
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Re: William Buckley Jr RIP
I was unaware, until now, that Buckley's wife, Pat, had died last year. I always found her flamboyant persona and style an interesting contrast to his more lowkey, understated demeanor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/obituaries/16buckley.html
"‘The sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inner tranquility which even religion is powerless to bestow." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not." Oscar Wilde
#10 2008-02-27 10:58:08
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Re: William Buckley Jr RIP
“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”
#12 2008-02-27 11:19:14
- Taylor McIntyre
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Harris will probably outlive me too.
#13 2008-02-27 11:28:47
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WFB's inestimable contribution to the Right-Wing Revolution in America was making retrograde opinion intellectually respectable to those children of the 1960s who were were susceptible to the siren song of reaction.
“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”
#15 2008-02-27 11:41:26
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Re: William Buckley Jr RIP
“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”
#16 2008-02-27 11:56:10
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Why not?
http://www.kronykronicle.com/1968/BV4.html
“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”
#18 2008-02-27 14:30:43
- eg
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#20 2008-02-27 16:37:09
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Re: William Buckley Jr RIP
“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”
#22 2008-02-27 22:33:55
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#24 2008-02-28 07:21:50
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“You know that saying, 'Caesar's wife is above suspicion'? Well I put an end to all that rubbish!"..”