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...upscale élites, convincing them he represents a new direction for their party. There was Gary Hart in 1984, Bill Bradley in 2000 and Howard Dean four years ago. But the outcome has always been the same when these phenomena have come up against more conventional rivals who appeal more explicitly to the populist voters that make up the Democratic Party's base. So while the Obama brand has a certain cachet--celebrities like Halle Berry have been photographed around Los Angeles wearing Obama T shirts--Obama the candidate is having a hard time breaking...
Part of the problem lies with Obama's low-key speaking delivery, an approach that surprises listeners who know him best (and often only) from his roof-raising keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. "His style is so cerebral and so cool that it just doesn't appeal to a wide segment of the Democratic Party," says an adviser to a rival campaign. "They want to like him, but he just isn't connecting with them." And Obama has had a harder time cultivating a down-home image than his opponents. A few weeks ago, he skipped...
...spouse is Michelle Obama, the wife of a leading contender for the job. She may think she is humanizing Barack by calling him "stinky and snore-y," but these undermining, embarrassing comments make me wonder if she feels a bit threatened by her husband's success and broad appeal...
...kill hundreds of Americans in a Saudi Arabian compound, an élite team of fbi agents led by Jamie Foxx flies in to collar the perps. Director Peter Berg cannily hypes the tension and the sentiment in the only one of the current Middle East political movies designed to appeal to the action crowd. Hard truths are absorbed while stuff blows...
...world, Canadian painter Ken Danby was more commercial than cool. But if some critics turned up their noses at his realistic images--of the Ontario landscape, of hockey icon Wayne Gretzky and other sports figures, of PM Pierre Trudeau for a 1968 Time cover--his appeal among regular folks helped cement his place in museums around the world. His most widely reproduced work, At the Crease, of a masked hockey goalie waiting for a hit, became an unofficial national symbol and won praise from Danby's hero, realist Andrew Wyeth, as "terrifying and exciting." Danby died of an apparent heart...