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...reasons. First, negative ads, according to Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s book Everything You Think You Know About Politics And Why You’re Wrong, are usually more accurate and substantive than positive ones. Second, people actually do listen, and respond, to carefully crafted negativity—ardent Kerry supporters now believe he’s a flip-flopper even though that charge was invented by the Republicans last March. And third, idealistic (and self-righteous) focus groups led the Kerry campaign to believe that they could make a case for change without ever telling people what...
...Othello’s Desdemona by her employer, London’s “leading lady” Ned Kynston (Billy Crudup). She mouths his lines with practised passion, for despite a ban on female actresses in public theater, Maria—surprise, surprise—harbors ardent aspirations for thespian glory...
...ardent promoter of the arts at Harvard, I would like to be able to say to my readers that they should go to this show. And of course in an ideal world, they certainly should. The work is historically important and mildly interesting—they might learn a few things about art history, and we’d all be that much more cultured as a result. But, honestly, I doubt most of you reading this column would care about this work. And I wish I could tell you that you should care, but I’m honestly...
...moving, breathing, lighting. But it is also about ideas. My theater work and my academic work are inextricably-linked components of my training as a working actor and director. This dual commitment is as central to my college life as a heavy science load would be to the most ardent premed...
...customers is a potent one, particularly since most major designers boast fewer paying fans than do most major musicians or actors. It's the kind of trepidation that Stacey Bendet, designer of the line Alice + Olivia, has encountered since co-founding the collective Democracy in Fashion. Bendet, 26, an ardent and open Democrat, has been recruiting designers to affix politically inspired tags to items of clothing in their current collections. One side of the tag explains the group's mission, which is to "unite fashion designers, members of the retail world and consumers to raise money in support...