[See previously: “Wikipedia and Race.”]
I didn’t write the following paragraph, which closed Kenny’s Wikipedia entry for all of 98 hours, but I wish I had!
Legacy
Shirley Strum Kenny's curious blend of five-year plans, red-themed propaganda and bureaucratic inefficiencies reminded many students of a Communist leader. Fittingly, she is currently remembered with approximately as much nostalgia and reverence as Joseph Stalin is in former Soviet Bloc countries.
74.88.24.46 (talk) at 01:38, 24 August 2010Full disclosure: I hate Shirley Stürmer Kenny’s guts. But that merely puts me in the same league as 90 percent of the non-billionaires who have had dealings with her. Skeptical but honest readers will ask why they should believe that this is not my unique animus.
Kenny is the subject of a roman à clef entitled The Bluebook Solution, by Ceil Cleveland, about the murder of a dictatorial, female, North Shore, State University of New York university president, whose case stymies police, because everyone who knew her hated her, had a motive to kill her, and thus was a suspect.
Ceil Cleveland has an important, if little known role in American pop culture. She is a life-long friend of the Bard of Texas, Larry McMurtry. Cleveland and McMurtry grew up together in Archer, Texas, where she was the dark-haired, high school heartbreaker who served as the model for blonde Jacy Farrow in his novel, The Last Picture Show, who was played in the movie version by Cybill Shepherd, or so she says in her memoir, Whatever Happened to Jacy Farrow?
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This woman must have been inspired the recent black driver that got out of his car with a gun, with his kids still in the car and got shot. Jerry
http://abcnews.go.com/US/minivan-stop-ends-shoots-fired-high-speed-chase/story?id=20912206
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