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...years, they have slightly favored the Democratic candidate for President in every election. Many observers believe that's because Democrats are more willing to talk to exit pollsters. Exit polls also suffer from an unusually high margin of error due to the difficulty of choosing sample precincts that mirror all of the diverse precincts in the area...
...photography into question, while short interviews with Dutch citizens about their favorite images probe the human penchant for collecting what others find meaningless. Throughout the film, visuals frequently take the place of verbal explanations. Tan periodically interrupts her documentary work with a panning shot of a man holding a mirror. As he walks, the mirror reflects the landscape around him, evoking what Tan refers to as “the silent world” of pictures. But among all assortments of existing images, Tan appreciates the occasional lucky occurrence when shooting a film. She explained how Dutch filmmakers refer...
...country were written in German, a language virtually no one in Laos understood. On the flight from Europe, however, fate intervened. A doctor in the adjacent seat leaned over. "He said, 'You do realize you have hepatitis, don't you?'" Cotterill recalls. "I looked at myself in the mirror, and, by God, there were these big yellow tennis-ball eyes staring back...
...Only once we returned to Kabul a few hours later did Ali confess that he had been terrified for the duration of our drive. He kept looking in the rearview mirror, he said, wary of any unusual activity on the road or men in the mountains with weapons...
...pressure was building up inside him, but Frederick, surrounded by stony nudes, had still not found the proper receptacle. Then, at last, he spotted Narcissus, fetchingly bent over a mirror designed to represent a pool of water...