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...Texas, the late Ann Richards, Smith thanked the help when she put dinner on the table, integrating the stage hand in the performance to indicate Richards’ possession of servants. In a lighter moment, Smith, as English and aesthetics professor Elaine Scarry, plucked a piece of sage from grass surrounding the stage and handed it to an audience member to roll between her fingers and smell, asking, “Good, right?” At times, Smith assumed the position of the interviewer in order to create different kinds of portraits, and at other times her presence...
Republicans in Missouri used to chuckle over the boasts of Barack Obama's grass-roots campaign, most notably the official claim to have 40 field offices, some covering the reddest and most rural regions of the state, and the unofficial whispers about having as many as 150 paid staffers. As the summer settled in and John McCain opened up what looked like a solid 5-to-7-point lead, Obama's investment of time and resources had Republicans and even some skeptical Democrats asking, Who are all these Obama staffers anyhow, and aren't they just wasting their time...
...fire trucks. Rather than the usual TV spots and billboards, Fireproof's marketers invited Christian publications on set and screened the film early for pastors and church groups. "This audience has to actually feel the fabric," says Meyer Gottlieb, president of Samuel Goldwyn Films. "The marketing is more grass roots...
...feet. Frederick liked absently to stroke her golden hair, and sometimes when the text was especially gripping he would prop his elbow on her convenient, shelf-like bosom.As the Russian mystic described the life of a peasant in the fields, Frederick lost himself in a visions of cut grass and open skies. His scythe mowed down the green in big, easy arcs. His body was slick with sweat, but he did not tire. His very being had been swept up in some great external force. The only problem was that the iron scythe in his hand kept melting into something...
...potential for long-term political costs by distracting from, or eroding, the central McCain message. By comparing Obama to a vacuous Hollywood starlet, McCain found a coherent critique of Obama but relinquished his own ability to rise above the political maw. By choosing Sarah Palin, he lit a grass fire of GOP enthusiasm but risked undermining his ticket's claim of having greater experience and putting "country first." By attacking Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment, the campaign clearly established itself as willing to engage in frivolous, small-ball distractions, a disposition that served McCain poorly when he pivoted...