NOONAN DOESN'T MISS IT
One more reason why Peggy Noonan is the sexiest woman in politics. She can sum it all up in one paragraph:
There was only one unforgettable moment, and that was in a cutaway shot, of Hillary Clinton, who simply must do something about her face. When the president joked that two people his father loves are turning 60 this year, himself and Bill Clinton--why does he think constant references to that relationship work for him?--it was Mrs. Clinton's job to look mildly amused, or pleasant, or relatively friendly, or nonhostile. Mrs. Clinton has two natural looks, the first being a dull and sated cynicism, the second the bright-eyed throaty chuckler who greets visiting rubes from Utica. The camera caught the first; by the time she realized she was the shot, she apparently didn't feel she could morph into the second. This canniest of politicians still cannot fake benignity.
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She is good putting visuals into words. She coined the term "victory jaw" to describe Bill Clinton's muscular facial expression when things were going good.
Victory Jaw is great. It is the polar opposite of Kevin Costner's Chin Boogies, when he nods as if in agreement with something he knows nothing about. Darrell Hammond on SNL did a tremendous Clinton, because he would marry the Victory Jaw with the Chin Boogie.
Just the notion of Hillary having only two faces, and all other expressions resulting from an interpolation of the morphing from one to the other has me in stitches. That's really good stuff.
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