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...Even after the Democratic convention, when Gore looked, just for a moment, like he was on a roll, he couldn't keep up the feel-good, balloon-dropping aura that engulfed him and, however briefly, possessed him. Almost as soon as the triumphant music faded in Los Angeles, Gore was back to the prognostications and schoolmarmish speeches that played so poorly among voters...
...Quoth the Times: "He seemed serene... Maybe Mr. Bush was after an aura of simple earnestness. Maybe he understood that there was only so much a candidate could do at this late stage. Or maybe he had sacrificed some of his energy to the hundreds of thousands of miles that it took to get to this point. His hair was grayer than when he started. But his message, an answer to the challenge of campaigning against an incumbent administration during peace and prosperity, was mostly unchanged...
...crazy. Few comics did Steve Allen impressions; his demeanor was too straight, too assured, abnormally normal. He needed glasses, so, what the heck, he wore glasses. They became not just his trademark but, on the covers of many books and albums, his logo. They suggested the high school teacher aura he projected, the hidden pedagogue who unmasked himself in his more didactic later years...
...them, but since there is no pretense that any of this is "real," then what's the point of the device? But then that's the main problem with Blair Witch 2-Berlinger wants to have his cake and eat it too. He tries too hard to force the aura of the first film into a regular narrative structure. The sequel tries to be like the first Blair Witch by not bothering to provide anything in the way of answers for what happened, but while the "found footage" gimmick in the original made the lack of explanation not only acceptable...
...blurred, although overall I don't use that style as much as before. People tend to have that opinion, that my style has changed a lot. But when I was younger, in the past, I was interested in not just the main subject I was shooting, but also the aura, the feeling surrounding the subject. The aura surrounding where I stood and the general atmosphere in the city-these various auras interested me. I wanted to somehow capture them in my photos. In order to do that, I would use the no-finder technique-that is, taking the photo without...