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...more or less undecided voters. Focus groups are a powerful political aphrodisiac: civilians tell the wizards how to rub them the right way. But they are also an insidious reversal of the political process, turning followers into leaders. Watching Hart, a pioneer and master of the idiom, trying to elicit responses from a surly group of citizens, I began to wonder whether focus groups have outlived their usefulness. The group was almost entirely predictable. They said Bush was a regular guy and Kerry seemed aloof. They said they wanted more specifics from the candidates and more high-minded coverage from...
Every day. I don't elicit the kind of reaction that Tom Cruise does. An alarming number of people want to smoke pot with me. A lot of the things I've done, people who smoke a lot of pot find funny or entertaining. I wonder what that means...
...first hint the 2004 might be different came at a Beastie Boys concert in the Jones Beach Amphitheater. All Mike D had to do is say the words “President Bush” to elicit a chorus of boos from the audience. Then I started to see “Vote or Die” signs in storefronts. I am covering the 2004 campaign for Salon.com—my ticket into the P. Diddy press conference—so I did some digging...
...That may elicit groans from the stadium seats, but it probably gets sustained applause in the Knightley household. Knightley portrays her parents--playwright Sharman Macdonald and stage actor Will Knightley--as the noblest and humblest of theater folks. One of her favorite stories about how they suffered for their art has to do with her conception: "I was a bet. My mum was desperate for another child, and my dad told her that the only way they could afford to have one was if she sold a play. So Mum wrote When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream...
...historic subtext of the Mather Department of War’s actions did not always elicit the proper responses, however. When Kirkland falsely blamed Mather for filling Cabot door boxes with dead fish, Corker and Maats submitted to The Crimson a copy of a letter that seemed to be signed by three Cabot residentsclaiming to be members of the club International Nature and Conservancy for Really Endangered Animals that are Seemingly Expendable (INCREASE). The letter placed the blame on Kirkland...