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Something is lost, though, in even the canniest strategy. Any time a campaign or candidate decides to run in one direction, other avenues inevitably close. Obama's decision to pursue this convention strategy meant that he would not build those pillars - because people can agree on throwing the bums out while disagreeing on what exactly they want instead. To unite the whole range of dissatisfied voters, he must gloss over topics that might divide them...
...lover, is allowed to act as one of her attorneys at the murder trial. Finally, the real murderer forces Kelly and the artist to bang noisily on a sculpture while dozens of guests attend a stately memorial service in an adjacent room. Ivan Reitman is the coarsest and canniest of directors; Meatballs, Stripes and Ghostbusters had no subtlety or style, but all profitably exploited Bill Murray's goofy hipness. Here, however, Reitman misreads the audience's pulse. The villain of Legal Eagles is a pathological firebug, and Reitman tries to play it like Arson and Old Lace. (He punctuates this...
...person to watch will be incoming minority leader Mitch McConnell, one of the Senate's canniest operators. After wrangling with McConnell for years over campaign-finance reform, Senator John McCain declared, "There are few things more daunting in politics than the determined opposition of Senator McConnell." President Bush does not want to spend his last two years in office vetoing one Democratic measure after another. So McConnell will play a position much like the goalie in a hockey game, blocking legislation from ever reaching Bush's desk...
Burger has tricks up his sleeve, but he's not a cheat. He knows that the camera is a gullible instrument, so he confidently puts all the clues on the screen. It's up to you to find these hidden treasures. By the end, the canniest viewers may not be fooled, but--and you can believe this--they may be mesmerized...
...THEORY OF SMART-DUMB. The industry's canniest minds rarely make sensitive social dramas. They leave that to Sundance, instead devising clever updates of genres they loved as kids: horror, farce, sci-fi and spy-fi. Aiming low, they often hit the target, which at the box office can be measured in the hundreds of millions. M:i:III accomplishes its mission: to run smart variations on dumb tropes. After all, summer movies are not for students but for thrill consumers. Devour and enjoy...