Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Hart Rich, Jr.is an American essayist, op-ed columnist and writer notable for having held various positions within The New York Times from 1980 to 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEssayist
Date of Birth2 June 1949
CountryUnited States of America
Frank Rich quotes about
years moral clinton
Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.
children reality flags
What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them.
act
In between, he had done Pia Zadora's act in Vegas,
night
always on tap, night and day, weekdays and weekends, to laugh, to applaud, to love.
account artistry authentic blues floats inside music racism white
This play is a searing inside account of what white racism does to its victims, ... and it floats on the same authentic artistry as the blues music it celebrates.
ask bush celebrity decade followed money shopping spent whether
Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture.
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After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.
constantly cruel shocked slapping supposedly
The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.