Word: clydes
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Regardless of the spin coming from both camps, there is no denying that Obama holds double-digit leads in most polls of Maryland and Virginia likely voters. "Maryland and Virginia both seem likely to go for Obama," said Clyde Wilcox, a political science professor at Georgetown University in Washington. "Both have substantial African-American populations, and although not all blacks vote for Obama he certainly does well in that group. Both states are relatively well educated, which is a demographic that Obama has carried very well in past primaries. Both states have done relatively okay financially the past several years...
...1960s was a period of civil unrest, disillusionment, and violence. It was also the era of Arthur Penn, a television and film director best known for such classics as “Bonnie and Clyde.” Penn appeared at the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last weekend for screenings of several of his works, ranging from the famous (“The Chase,” “Mickey One”) to the obscure (“The Highest,” a short featured in the 1972 Olympics) to a live television drama...
...says former Pussy Cat Doll Nicole Scherzinger. “Let me in. I can be a dame. Won’t blow the whistle. Get you cheesed.” Cue music, dance sequence. Seems like a good beginning to a rap video, no? The Bonnie and Clyde homage has worked before—remember Jay-Z and Beyoncé back in ’03? While “Scream”—the video for the fifth single off Tim’s 2007 album “Shock Value...
...vetoed a Republican spending bill even though the vast majority included funding levels far larger than he requested. "There is, of course, an irony about a President who let through all kinds of appropriations that were far above his proposals through, suddenly itching to use the budget veto,"said Clyde Wilcox, a government professor at Georgetown University...
...before I crash...") But there's not much poetry, I mean of the pulp variety, in Death Proof. It doesn't show me much innovation, or much fidelity to the old grindhouse tropes. For example, in the seminal road movies of the late '60s and early '70s - Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Vanishing Point, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry - all those careening, careering antiheroes ended up dead. They paid for their vitality with their fatality. But Tarantino won't go that extra mile, at least in the second half of his escapade. He wants his crashes without the body count...