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...this," says TIME's Eric Pooley. "But, it is not likely to prove a decisive turning point. Drugs are a part of the culture, and voters know this. Besides, a Democratic administration attracts idealistic young people who grew up during the 1970's." Unless the GOP concocts an unusually clever way to exploit the issue, Pooley says, it mainly functions as campaign clutter. "It should be seen in the context of the scandal-a-week which plagues the Administration. The White House can't seem to find a clean week to put out their positive message, which is not great...
...Clever as they may have been, that and similar tactical strokes were small beer. Yeltsin's problems were too big to be solved simply by delivering what people knew was due them in the first place. Even before their polling confirmed their suspicions, the Americans intuited that Yeltsin would lose and lose badly if the election were a referendum on his stewardship. Most Russians, the polls and focus groups found, perceived Yeltsin as a friend who had betrayed them, a populist who had become imperial. "Stalin had higher positives and lower negatives than Yeltsin," says Dresner. "We actually tested...
...world is what "Purple Noon" brings to mind, a desperate era in which violent hatred and adoration amount to the same thing, where one person is interchangeable with any other, and most characters are, like Marg, the helpless victims of the machinations of stronger or more clever people. Yet "Purple Noon" never seems gloomy or disapproving of it's protagonists' mutual assured destruction. The potency of the film is undiluted by moralizing or even the sense that the story is being "told" from a certain point of view at all. The story of Philipe and Tom proceeds with a fearfully...
Emmerich made his early films in Germany--and in English, for the world market. In 1989, after a clever Spielberg-rip-off kids' fantasy (Making Contact) and a comedy about moviemaking (Ghost Chase), he directed Moon 44, an outer-space Dirty Dozen with a story line that would recur in ID4: for a desperate space battle, a former combat pilot must assemble a ragtag band of flyers, including a loser with heroically suicidal tendencies. Devlin played the computer-nerdy male ingenue; after Moon 44, he and the director became filmmaking partners...
...science-fiction literature earned a reputation as the opiate of supernerdy teenage boys: sturdy but unimaginative prose that waxed rhapsodic about G-forces and interstellar trajectories. It wasn't quite fair even then; early works by authors such as Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke relied as much on clever plot twists and thought-provoking views of societal evolution as on visions of rocket ships and interplanetary travel. Still, there was sufficient truth for the stereotype to sting...