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That last barb has little to do with energy policy, of course, and nearly everything to do with the McCain campaign's desire to paint Obama as élite, aloof and out of touch. It's a story line Republicans have used against Democrats for a generation and one that McCain's team dusted off in late July with an attack ad that mocked the "Obama, Obama" chants of Democratic supporters. Then the McCain campaign released a televised spot that compared Obama to America's favorite vapid celebrities, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. The spot barely aired as a paid...
...also spins off wildly into self-parody. Nightingale and Valentine Coverly (Charlie E. Riggs ’10, who is also a Crimson editorial writer) provide thoughtful anchors for the play, ruminating on all of Stoppard’s weighty subjects while also being able to interject a barb when the opportunity arises. It’s remarkable that Stoppard’s play, first performed in 1993 at the dawn of the computer era, does not seem dated by the exponential leaps in technology that have occurred since that date. Stoppard frequently uses the computer as an analogue...
...Here's the town's topography of restlessness. Annie (Kate Beckinsale) has split from her husband Glenn (Sam Rockwell) after a stormy marriage that spawned four-year-old Tara (Grace Hudson) and a judge's ruling of Glenn's spousal abuse. She works in a diner with Barb (Amy Sedaris) and is having an affair with Barb's husband Nate (Nicky Katt). Also at the diner is teenage Arthur (Michael Angarano), whose parents have split and who has had a crush on Annie since she was his baby sitter. Most of the denizens of this working-class town are searching...
...himself off the floor after New Hampshire; how McCain's current campaign chairman, Rick Davis, produced lousy ads during that campaign. The same goes for those close to John McCain, who still harbor bitterness over what they viewed as dirty attacks in South Carolina, and even toss the occasional barb about Bush dodging service in Vietnam...
Politically, Clinton's barb may have been too elliptical and insider-y for voters at home. (In the debate room, it drew applause and boos.) To get it, you needed to have seen the SNL skit and to be familiar with the charge that the press is in love with Obama--in which case, you were probably involved enough to know who you were voting for already. To a Texas or Ohio voter tuning in for the first time, it may have been sympathetic (The media sucks! Woo-hoo!), or it may have been confusing (Uh, getting the first question...