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...fact, many voters have been listening closely for months, and that partly explains why Kerry has slipped in the polls. Democrats and Republicans agree that the Kerry campaign focused its convention so tightly on the theme of the candidate's military service--chiefly to blunt the public's doubts about his qualifications to be Commander in Chief--that it came out of Boston without a clearly defined domestic agenda for the nation. Kerry hardly lacks a platform at home; his health-care and fiscal policies are far more detailed, if less numerous, than Bush's. But the campaign didn...
...replied that "[Kidman's] not a legend. She's a beginner." The dig seemed to be aimed more at the breathless journalist than at Oscar winner Kidman--Bacall later said the two have "a fabulous relationship both onscreen and off." It's just that to be a legend, the blunt Bacall explained, "you have to be older." Now, that whippersnapper Meryl Streep--she's getting there...
...heard he’s more infamous than famous,” said Evan Hanlon ’08, from Long Island. “And that he struck some people as kind of blunt and rude when he first became president...
...yours pace stirs suspicions that the play is more bustling than profound. I prefer Alan Bennett?s two one-acters, ?An Englishman Abroad? (about Brit superspy Guy Burgess, who fled to Moscow after passing secrets to the Reds) and ?A Question of Attribution? (about Burgess? comrade in duplicity, Anthony Blunt, an art historian who daringly stayed in Britain and became caretaker of ?the Queen?s pictures?) But ?Democracy? certainly provides an intelligently entertaining evening of mistaken-identity, multiple-identity spy comedy...
Forget those blunt Australians. The new It Country in show biz is Denmark. The Nordic nation, whose biggest A-listers until recently were oddball auteur Lars Von Trier (Dogville) and Hans Christian Andersen (The Little Mermaid), is now better known for heartthrobs. "It must have been all the Nutrigrain they fed us as kids," says Norgaard, who takes on all comers in this month's Alien vs. Predator. Yah. Or those cheekbones...