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After they met Gore, the volunteers continued to brave cold temperatures as they walked though different neighborhoods all day in order to gauge Gore's support base...
...Mansfield describes manliness as confidence, willingness to stand up to a risk or challenge. A "manly man" takes charge. He is brave, frank, aggressive, competitive, loyal, stoical. "It is harder for women to be manly," he said, slipping on the hot mittens and taking out the cupcakes. "The whole idea of bullfighting, for example, is ridiculous manliness. A woman would never do that." The archetypal "manly" woman is Margaret Thatcher, according to Professor Mansfield. "[She] is an outstanding example: the iron lady. And yet she was quite feminine, I was told, with her husband. Even when she was Prime Minister...
...which implies that Gore isn't brave enough or doesn't care enough about the poor to spend what it takes to help them. And in a way, this is a hopeless trap. Bradley may be making promises he can't keep, but Gore suffers if he pulls on a green eyeshade and starts sounding bloodless as he challenges Bradley's numbers and details. After all, Bradley says, Kennedy didn't know what kind of rocket fuel it would take to get to the moon; he just had the nerve to vow that we would get there somehow...
...brilliance of what is, on its own, a wonderful film, and interferes with the creation of a captivating fantasy. Several of the vocal performances are wonderful, such as Billy Crudup as Ashitaka and Gillian Anderson as Moro the Wolf Goddess. Crudup is entirely believable, sounding in turn appropriately brave, vulnerable, and kind. Gillian Anderson's voice is altered here, designed to sound more godlike (the effect succeeds). Her growling tones are menacing and eerie, and her Moro is as intelligently complex as many of the human characters. Others, however, are slightly weird--particularly Minnie Driver's voice-over as Lady...
...left open, or used to pull out rotten teeth. Moreover, they can take you right back to where you started. They are the campus's little turbines of doom, with faces smashed against their walls and students flying out of them, screaming. The "scoot" and The Superman are brave attempts to navigate these treacherous passageways, to tame the wild spinners...