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WASHINGTON / Patty Murray...
Even in a year of unlikely candidates, Patty Murray, who is running for the Senate in the State of Washington, stands out as an original. The 41-year-old state legislator and community-college teacher likes to call herself "a mom in tennis shoes." Going toe-to-toe on the footwear symbolism, her Republican opponent, five-time Congressman Rod Chandler, has taken to wearing cowboy boots. But no amount of heavy stomping on the campaign trail has yet put him ahead of a woman whose campaign slogan could be "Mother knows best." "I tell people I am a mom caring...
Going after her proenvironment and health-care stands, Chandler has labeled Murray a tax-and-spend liberal Democrat. He also chides her for lacking the legislative experience and expertise to serve effectively in the Senate, but in a year marked by resentment against Washington insiders, inexperience can be a plus in the eyes of many voters. Maybe not enough of them, though -- while Murray once led in the polls by as much as 24 points, her lackluster debate performances and Chandler's attacks on her lack of political savvy have turned the race into a virtual dead heat...
...Coupland. He doesn't flesh out the relationship of Harmony and Skye, Tyler's friends, whose not-uncommon fear of dating strangers drives them to each other's arms because they've known each other since preschool days. Nor does Coupland tell the story of Daisy and her boyfriend Murray (also dreadlocked) searching in vain for politically correct employment. Coupland wants very much to be the voice of this generation, but he must understand that its stories are intriguing enough to stand on their own. He does not have to dance around hair gels and alternative music to tell them...
...Roberts," a political movie released in the heat of a presidential election year, entices and entrances the viewer as it skewers the senatorial candidacy of its title character, a right-wing folksinger and fencing enthusiast. The film is done in the style of a British documentary, with Brian Murray playing the Alastair Cookeesque tweedy host Terry Manchester. The effect is to put the audience on the campaign trail and amidst the rabid, swarming, red-white-and-blue masses of Roberts fans. It's a tribute to idealistic caring and muckraking investigative reporting and a giant dis to Wall Street, greed...