Saturday's match will not be what defines her career with her country, but if it has to finish with an anti-climax, then might as well end it on a good footnote.
But the whole cast is so good (Lenny Kravitz is memorable in a tiny role as a male nurse's aide and Robin Thicke's wife Paula Patton is a standout as Precious' lesbian teacher) and the movie so real and harrowing that Carey's presence is not much more than a very good footnote.
Everything else is, well, footnotes.
But these are just footnotes.
Essentially, they have created a Giffen good [see footnote] and marketed the living daylights out of it.
When Settle prepared to publish his well-researched account he had a good volume of footnotes, citations prepared, but the editors chose not to use most of them.
That's the good thing about footnote-caliber celebrities: there are so many of them.
Their products are LCD (lowest common denominator) rather than HCF (highest common factor), but their LCD is higher than anyone else's and that must be A Good Thing [see footnote].
It's always good to read the footnotes, especially when they're written by Seymour Hersh.
By Amy Davidson Sorkin August 6, 2010 It's always good to read the footnotes, especially when they're written by Seymour Hersh.
