Tag Archives: Mitt Romney

Lit Explains Romney’s Off-Putting Laugh

By Robin Bates | Published: May 24, 2012

Lewis Carroll, Kundera, and Dostoevsky help us understand why Mitt Romney’s laugh makes us nervous.

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The Rape of John Lauber’s Locks

By Robin Bates | Published: May 14, 2012

The high school incident where Romney forcibly cut a classmate’s hair is less “Lord of the Flies” and more “Rape of the Lock.”

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Why Can’t Mitt Fake Authenticity?

By Robin Bates | Published: May 10, 2012

Klaus Mann’s novel “Mephisto” applied to Mitt Romney gives us insight into whether can give a strong presidential performance while being inauthentic.

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Santorum as Gatsby?! Okay, Humor Me

By Robin Bates | Published: April 10, 2012

Think of the 2012 Republican primaries as “The Great Gatsby,” with Romney as Tom Buchanan and Santorum as Gatsby.

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Santorum, Like Dorothy, Keeps Going

By Robin Bates | Published: March 16, 2012

In movie allusions used to capture the presidential primaries, Santorum is Dorothy, Romney is Terminator 3, and Gingrich is Bruce Willis in “The Sixth Sense.”

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Mitt (who told lies and was burned to death)

By Robin Bates | Published: March 6, 2012

Mitt Romney’s lies, like those of Hilaire Belloc’s Matilda, make one gasp and stretch one’s eyes.

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Romney as Shakespeare’s Dark Lady?!

By Robin Bates | Published: February 28, 2012

“I do believe her, though I know she lies,” wrote Shakespeare about the dark lady. It could also be said by some Republican voters about Mitt Romney.

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Vs. Obama, Would Mitt Change Movies?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 20, 2012

To run successfully against Obama, Mitt Romney may need to flipflop from Gordon Gekko in “Wall Street” to Edward Lewis in “Pretty Woman.”

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Presidents as Points of Projection

By Robin Bates | Published: January 10, 2012

Mitt Romney may appear to lack a core, but so did Chance in Jerzy Kosinski’s novel “Being There.” And even Barack Obama is different things to different people.

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