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...After a high-level meeting, the party's guns swiveled from the Conservatives to target the Lib Dems. Campaign workers were hustled into key marginal seats, and Blair gave a speech condemning the Lib Dems' policies on crime and drugs. Still the Lib Dems kept surging: by Sunday, the number crunchers at Victoria Street calculated their share of the vote could reach 25% by election day. Finally the Labour counterattack gained traction, and the tide subsided. The day before the election, Mark Penn, a U.S. pollster working for Labour, was able to write on a big whiteboard at headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking For Some Help | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

...between comedy and tragedy is hair thin, Melinda and Melinda tells two parallel stories of one neurotic woman, Melinda. The formal agenda is augmented by a framing device wherein dapper middle-aged New York playwrights enjoy a leisurely lunch and, in the course of discussing the two genres, ad lib the stories of Melinda for the entertainment of their friends. The dramatist weaves a “tragedy” while the comedy writer composes a “comedy...

Author: By Emer C. M. vaughn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Melinda and Melinda | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...tampon jokes only reinforce the girl-power theme. It avoids having a saccharine message on the importance of female “friendship” or overtly sexual comedy and stays cute by never taking itself too seriously. Rather than being like Waiting to Exhale women’s-lib drudge, it more closely resembles a male buddy comedy like Bad Boys. Except that instead of excess violence there’s just a whole lot of Vuitton...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Ms. Congeniality 2 | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

...they do it? What did they do to themselves? How are they doing now? Here's a first-term report from a long-time listener - and (to indulge in its hosts' obsessively confessional tone) a radio fan and radic-lib who is glad the medium's political spectrum is now a little less narrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: America Still on the Air | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

...that the arousal of the penis is easier to display visually than arousal of the clitoris. As Gill noted in the "Blue Notes" essay: "Simply as theatre, cunnilingus isn't a patch on fellatio, and it is difficult to see what even the most ardent Women's Lib maker of blue movies can do about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: When Porno Was Chic | 3/29/2005 | See Source »

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