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...spotlight off his own (incomprehensible) position on the war, John Kerry built his whole post-convention campaign on bad newspaper headlines about Iraq. The message was: “Whatever I’m offering can’t be worse than this.” Kerry would hoist the reports about Americans killed in combat, and you could almost imagine Democratic campaign aides high-fiving each other as news of another insurgent attack hit the wires. Understandably, hoping that Iraq would fail gave many Americans the impression that Democrats…hope that Iraq would fail. Finally, Bush?...
This begins with wiring up Kent so that he thinks he is hearing a heaven-sent voice and ends with Hathaway gloriously hoist on his own laser beam. The path between those two points leads through farcical situations, but the Animal House spirit is not present in this academic grove. Real Genius, directed by Martha Coolidge and written by Neal Israel, Pat Proft and Peter Torokvei, is a smart, no-nonsense movie that may actually teach its prime audience a valuable lesson: the best retort to an intolerable situation is not necessarily a food fight. Better results, and more...
...something in the social climate, but suddenly it seems as though all around the country people are going to any length to find their garden: to read about it, visit it and, if at all possible, create it. Mailboxes bulge with gardening catalogs, groceries grow on windowsills, cranes hoist trees onto city rooftops. From coast to coast, nursery owners say their business has doubled. -- TIME, June...
...game designers noticed that the goggles throw off less green light than he expected. That will be reflected in the next version of the game. They drink $1.75 Coors at the All-Ranks Club and climb in and out of the backs of trucks ("It took four people to hoist me in, and I still pulled a muscle," said one ruefully). Then there's that mock ambush. "I wanted them to be shocked," says Major Randy Zeegers, a tall, poster-perfect Green Beret who functions as a liaison between the Army and the designers. "They'll take that...
...means of confronting, and ultimately defeating, the three-branch, fifty-state, multimedia right-wing behemoth that is America’s new governing party. And to the dangerously naïve among us—those who counsel “working with the president,” and hoist Tom Daschle’s political corpse as evidence of the perils of “obstructionism”—a dose of history seems in order...