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...Nike won't go out of business if it can't sell its shoes to 50 percent plus 1 of the market. Nader is a niche product; he's like a UPN show, trying to capture 5 percent of the audience. Whereas for the Big Two, clever is dangerous. You can inadvertently alienate important sectors of the electorate (for instance, the stupid) or come off as slick and dishonest. Since Watergate, ads have been much more straightforward - and artless. When the media landscape is carpet-bombed with ugly, blaring ads, perhaps every ad, regardless of its content, becomes a negative...
...From Allen's Alley came 50 or so books, nearly 8,000 songs (why?), a clever if starchy Great Men of History chat series called "Meeting of Minds" and a few more incarnations of the "Tonight" format (including a syndicated show in the late '60s that profoundly influenced David Letterman). He kept up the productive pace, but for smaller, older audiences - the remnants of the pop intelligentsia he had helped form. If Mensa had a nightclub for its senior members, he'd be the lounge...
...mischievious sense of humor, Bagger is easily the most fascinating character in the film, and Smith's performance is a pleasant surprise. As for the always-tantalizing Charlize Theron? She enhances the role of Adele by giving the character two distinct layers of complexity. At times, we see her clever, manipulative side, using her feminine sensibilities and Southern charm to manipulate the male characters around her. But when she interacts with Junuh, we see her nostalgic and vulnerable side, the part of her that was devastated when she was abandoned by the love of her life...
...bound to get through O.K." They see her as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality. Hermione is me, near enough. A caricature of me when I was younger. I wasn't that clever. But I was that annoying on occasion. Girls are very tolerant of her because she is not an uncommon female type--the little girl who feels plain and hugely compensates by working very hard and wanting to get everything just...
...have more homework in grade school than you had in college and you sometimes feel grateful for traffic jams just because they give you time to think, the last thing we want from politics is more uncertainty. And for voters who don't want any more change, these two clever, complicated candidates have made it hard even to guess which one is more likely to deliver...