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...away from longer shots, smaller casts, and more thoughtful cinematic construction. So much the worse for viewers.Still, accomplished modern filmmakers recognize the huge debt they owe to legends like Kurosawa and Polanski even if the average consumer may not.In an interview with Prairie Miller of the Long Island Press, Allen deliberately prostrated himself before the greats: “You can look at a film of Kurosawa’s and a film of mine, and see the difference,” he said. “There’s just no qualitative comparison. One is a work...
Forecasting is always a dangerous habit for opinion journalists. A quick perusal of the predictions made by leading conservatives in the week before the election—“Santorum can pull it out!” “Allen will never lose!” “What backlash?”—shows just how inaccurate one can be. Yet it still seems safe to say that this year’s tailgate, a huge part of the Harvard-Yale experience, will be a major disappointment...
...campaigns to strongly support and raise money for, all of which lost. This cycle, bloggers may have been most strongly linked to Lamont, but they actually donated more money to Jim Webb of Virginia. Bloggers also made "macaca" into a scandal that helped sink Webb's opponent, George Allen. The netroots' record is probably too short to be judged definitively, but instead of looking at pure win/loss records, an examination of where the netroots put their emphasis suggests that the online community is either becoming more sophisticated in picking its candidates or is helping push long shots over...
...from 'Macacagate', which helped to puncture the expected victory of George Allen in the Virginia Senate race. But if Segolene Royal doesn't win Thursday's first round vote to become the Socialist Party candidate for upcoming French presidential elections, everyone will say what turned the tide was an incriminating video exploding on the internet...
...Allen's ineptness was the first thing that came to White House spokesman Tony Snow's mind when reporters pressed him on the impact of the Administration's Iraq policy on voters. A "statement by Senator Allen ended up being a key issue in that particular campaign," he pointed out, adding lamely, "You had various things that people said on the stump." For this White House, George Allen's disaster counts as a bright spot...