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...Bergman critical consensus also evaporated. His films were dismissed as stage-bound, not real movies because they talked so much, and morbidly full of themselves. As the cultural climate changed, he didn't, and the fashion that Bergman had started and flourished in came back to bite him - and then, worse, to forget him. Hardly anyone (except this one) still thought of him as the world's greatest filmmaker...
...opinion continues to turn against the war. "This issue is a much more challenging problem on the Republican side," says Chris Van Hollen, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, who is tasked with making sure those freshman Democrats hold onto their seats in November 2008. "There's a consensus that people want to change direction on Iraq...
Negativity persisted, but popular consensus was that “Goblet of Fire” had upped the stakes for complexity in the series. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar published an article in The New York Times in late 2001 that contained traces of skepticism, calling the Harry Potter series “children’s ‘classics’ for our time,” if not “classics for all time...
...state's virtually nonexistent public transportation. But Crist, whose optimism is as bright as his tan, isn't worried. "Floridians love their cars, and that's their right," he says. "But I think there may be less of a fight here than we might imagine. There is a consensus of opinion and a desire among Floridians to do this...
...made him a renegade. More than a third of the young people he registered were Democrats, and that was fine with him. "We weren't tied to the Republican National Committee or have some agenda. We just wanted people to vote." Plus, he says, he was more interested in consensus than in controversy or finding the next wedge issue. "Some of them don't want a solution," he says of conservative activists, "'cause you won't have an issue to raise money over...