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“The World” is a Chinese movie, a recent one about a theme park in Beijing. “Give us a day and we’ll show you the world.” It has smaller versions of such landmarks as the Eiffel Tower, Manhattan skyline, Acropolis and St. Peters. The movie follows Tao, a 20 something dancer, and her off and on boyfriend, Taisheng, through the ups and downs of a love affair.
This is a slice of life film most interesting to me in its depiction of rural folks who’ve come to the Capital to make a life. The rural to urban story is a global story, retold time and time again in Bogota, Rio, Paris, Athens, Lagos, Shanghai and Minneapolis. The tentativeness of relationships, particularly among the young, is also a global story, especially among young, recently emigrated urban folk.
Not a thrilling movie, but moving.
OK, so Spitzer is a hypocrite and an unfaithful husband. And, yes, he drug his wife along to his confession. The Daily Show did a great piece on that last night, showing several governors with their wives by their side as they confess sexual dalliance. They could have added evangelical preachers and congressman. They did include Bill Clinton.
The implication I don’t find helpful is that because he paid money for sex he was not a good prosecutor. The guilt or innocence of the persons on Wall Street that he prosecuted are not less or more responsible for their crimes because he’s a schmuck. The quality of his prosecution does not depend on his sexual fidelity any more than it depends on his perfect health.
Someday, America, we’ve got to get over this fascination with sex and public people. We need pay much greater attention to the policies they pursue and not so much to their bedrooms. And, yes, I even believe that’s true of Larry Craig, although his mendacity following his arrest has put him in a different category altogether.
