But in the immediate repeat of that phrase Mr. Lang was already up to his attention-grabbing tricks: coyly prolonging the upbeat, milking the tune emotively, making everything cute.

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The son of Cuban immigrants referred emotively to his personal story and that of his family, though his policy criticisms and proposals were largely in line with prevailing mainstream and, in some cases, conservative Republican thinking.

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The real villains, according to Antonia Fraser in this well-researched and emotively narrated life, were the journalists and cartoonists who pilloried the queen, creating a monster from one whose chief crime was to be careless about her public image.

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