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Every First Lady makes an impression, whether she means to or not. Some arrive at the White House already well versed in the out

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问题     Every First Lady makes an impression, whether she means to or not. Some arrive at the White House already well versed in the outfit requirements of the job.【F1】Others resent the expectations or struggle with the language of imagery out of insecurity or a failure to grasp why what makes them comfortable should be any business of the public’s.
    In Michelle Obama’s case, her image has provided a welcome distraction from the challenges and criticisms her husband faced in his first two years in office. The Administration muddles along-, the President’s popularity dips and dives—Mrs. Obama just puts her best outfit outward. 【F2】______ She is as unflappable running a relay race in a pair of athletic pants as she is standing serenely on the steps of the North Portico(北门廊) in a glamorous evening gown. And she seems courageous when taking risks, never plagued by second guessing, unafraid of making a statement.
    Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Michelle Obama—and it is the essence of her style—is her ability to finesse the differences between the person and the persona: the private self and the projected public image.【F3】The effortless way Obama carries herself suggests not only that she has mastered the art of blending person and persona but also that she has resolved one of the contradictions that have plagued working women in America for the better part of a century. Which is to say, the mistaken but deeply entrenched belief that style and substance define two mutually exclusive paths and that a woman has to choose one or the other.
    You can see this contradiction played out in the two approaches First Ladies have taken throughout history.【F4】The style line runs from Dolley Madison to Jackie Kennedy and includes First Ladies who used style and image to advance their husbands’ agendas and cultivate their own influence. The other line follows the course of 20th century feminism. It runs from Eleanor Roosevelt to Hillary Clinton—those First Ladies who broke with the traditional limits of the role and threw themselves into the political conflict, testifying at congressional hearings, challenging conventions and championing causes.
    What makes Obama exceptional is that she seems so at home in both camps. So at home that the whole debate about style and substance suddenly seems passe, an old-fashioned gender war, a false division enforced by narrow-minded men and women at war with themselves.【F5】 That Michelle Obama does not see style and substance as an either-or choice is a powerful statement that the underlying assumptions about women’s roles and images have changed. Embodying the combination of substance and style, she has helped reconcile the long-standing hostility between them. She has, in some sense, made them one and the same.
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答案形式路线从多莉·麦迪逊到杰奎琳·肯尼迪，包括那些用自身风格和形象推动丈夫的事业并树立个人影响力的第一夫人。
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