http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/01/04/jack-abramoff-the-don-or-the-rov/ Essays on politics, culture and ideas about Israeli-Arab peace and world music Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:37:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/01/04/jack-abramoff-the-don-or-the-rov/#comment-1875 cs Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:24:53 +0000 http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/01/04/jack-abramoff-the-don-or-the-rov/#comment-1875 Thanks for drawing the cultural allusion, Richard. I didn't know what to make of that get-up when I saw the pics yesterday. One of my favorite shots of Abramoff is the picture you posted awhile back of him sprawled at his desk in double-breasted pinstripe, I think. Part Mafia don, part Hollywood mogel, it struck me that like our costume-prone prez, here was another fantasist, a grown man escaping into a world of pretend. Thanks for drawing the cultural allusion, Richard. I didn’t know what to make of that get-up when I saw the pics yesterday. One of my favorite shots of Abramoff is the picture you posted awhile back of him sprawled at his desk in double-breasted pinstripe, I think. Part Mafia don, part Hollywood mogel, it struck me that like our costume-prone prez, here was another fantasist, a grown man escaping into a world of pretend.

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