“She had rhythm, a flow and swerve, hands slicing air, body weight moving from foot to foot, a beautiful rhythm. In anything else but a black American body, it would have been contrived.”
“Contrived” seems like a good place to stop when taking a peek at the New York Times Style Magazine’s feature, “To the First Lady, With Love.”
A collection of four thank you letters for Michelle Obama to treasure as her husband finishes out his second term playing golf and fundraising, the piece kicks off with that quote from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and goes on to intersperse love letters from Gloria Steinem, Jon Meacham, and Rashida Jones with a collection of glamor shots.
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@MatthewTyrmand @nytimes you're_absolutely_ certain it's NOT _Tiger Beat_?
— William Krebs (@wbkrebs) October 17, 2016
Well, it’s filed under the style section, and it’s not as though there’s not one critical word about the first lady in the piece, though Meacham attributes that to the “Obama skeptics and the Obama haters” who have questioned Mrs. Obama’s patriotism for some reason. Jones makes it clear, though, it’s “our country’s shameful history” that has fallen short of the standard Obama has set and not the other way around.
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95 more days of this.
— D W Wenzel (@TX_zel) October 17, 2016
You think it's ever going to stop?
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) October 17, 2016
It will never stop, but it SHOULD subside. But until the Inauguration, it will be hagiographic.
— D W Wenzel (@TX_zel) October 17, 2016
Let ’em have their fun: somehow we’re not expecting many photos of Madam President Clinton or the first dude framed in halos and shooting rainbows from their hands.
50 years from now, these examples will be studied in journalism classes with incredulity.
— Link (@Linked333) October 17, 2016
indeed, I'm almost scared to click the link, lest i suffer the resulting fanboy/girl squeeeeeee! when it opens.
— Thomas Keister (@thomaskeister) October 17, 2016
Best to be safe and give this one a pass.