Word: opinionizing
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These men accept the tragedy of war even as they recognize that waging it means accepting that your own opinion doesn't matter. It's the epiphany you get in John Ford's great film Fort Apache, as John Wayne sucks it up and carries out the orders of his pigheaded commanding officer, Henry Fonda, even as it leads to a massacre--and can still say years later, "He made it a command to be proud of." It's what Clint Eastwood was aiming for in his account of the doomed Japanese soldiers in Letters from Iwo Jima--except that...
Glee abounds on the Labor side of Australian politics. The Opposition is high on a bubble of sparkling opinion polls. Bring on the election! Party leader Kevin Rudd speaks and moves with the authority of an alternative Prime Minister, something his folk have not heard and seen for some time. Last week in Canberra, P.M. John Howard delivered a talk called "Building Prosperity: The Challenge of Economic Management." Same night, same city, Rudd gave a speech on "Prosperity Beyond the Mining Boom" to a business lobby group. In the printed drafts, Rudd's speech is more tightly spaced...
...basing my own position on my own knowledge, and I don’t think people are as close to the sport or know as much about Reade,” Anderson said. “I’m not going to be discouraged from my own opinion because of the potential of [backlash]. I know what people think, but I know most of it’s uninformed...
...tell’ is repealed,” Armini said. “We have military recruiters on campus today, and we would have recruiters on campus even if this policy were changed.” The legislation comes on the verge of what appears to be shifting public opinion regarding the military’s ban. While a 1993 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed that only 40 percent of people favored allowing openly gay people to serve in the military, a 2006 Zogby poll showed that 73 percent of military personnel were comfortable with gays and lesbians. The Military...
...Scott provides only a loose framework of a script for his actors. Though sections of the play are entirely scripted, many parts are left open to theatrical improvisation. He says he believes that through improvisation, actors can bring more life and energy to the performance. “My opinion on acting, if I had to sum it up, is that it’s a lot more about an outward focus, about responding to someone,” he says. “No one wants to see someone up there just expostulating and internalizing. It?...