Other high points:
- Aretha--voice and hat! :)
- the wonderful quartet of Itzak Perlman, YoYo Ma, Anthony McGill, and Gabriela Montero
- the Marine Corp Band playing Sousa marches
- all those young, taut, serious servicemen in their dress uniforms
- Sasha Obama's pink coat and orange scarf and mittens
Like most of female America, I guess, I'm waiting to see what Michelle Obama wears tonight. I thought her inaugural outfit was very on-pitch--she wears clothes well and knows exactly what looks good on her, and manages to combine sort of conservative elegance with a pop of surprise, without going over the top.
I don't have TV, so this was the first time I've seen Obama speak. There's an aura of Kennedy-esque Camelot over the Obamas, but watching the speech I thought there's also a big streak of Woodrow Wilson in the guy--it was easy to see he'd been a teacher!
Bless them. They have a lot of expectations to live up to.
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I don't watch TV much either, but Obama is worth watching. If you ever want to watch speeches, etc. you can do what I do: go to nytimes.com. They have multimedia versions of lots of speeches--video, transcript, and an index of topics in the speech!
I love it!
Yeah, but I've got dial-up. I can't watch video at home. One of these days I'll get brave and ditch my landline and use the phone money for DSL instead.
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