The New Yorker, 2008-09-01

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"The Code Of The West" / Ryan Lizza
__ Another fact of Western politics—one that also helps Democrats—is an absence of a strong party tradition. “They didn’t have political machines two hundred years ago that dictated party, because they weren’t even states,” Beattie said... There’s no culture of political patronage, so individual candidates and personalities matter far more than party labels.

"Fun and Games" / Anthony Lane
__ Now it exists, for real, and there are two Chinese fellows with the best job in the world, who get to steer it back to the shot-putting circle by remote control. (It can also bring a hammer, or even a javelin, which slots neatly into the fin.)

"Stop, Thief!" / John Colapinto
__ "In those days... you dropped something gently out of that ceiling - usually a small piece of paper - and let it waft to the ground. That was the signal to go pick them up."

"Sole Sisters" / Patricia Marx
__ William J. Riley, who founded the New Balance Arch Support Company, based his designs on the feet of chickens, whose three-clawed feet provided those creatures with perfect poise.

"Makeup and Make-believe" / John Updike

• Before an interview with the general’s personal physician, Max covered himself with yellowish makeup—an especially fairy-tale touch.
• The deposit needed to safeguard the costly wigs posed a sticking point, which Factor, resorting not for the last time to his brood of useful children, circumvented by waiving the deposit and having De Mille hire his three sons as Indian extras, paying them three dollars a day; at the end of each day, they collected their father’s wigs or had their pay docked.
• The new film made every item in the Max Factor make-up line for motion pictures instantly obsolete.  Max to his own rescue! He and Frank labored for months to test and perfect an entirely new formulation in a wider-than-ever range of shades that reflected the correct degree of light required by the sensitive new film.

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