Word: panders
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...fight and fight: I'm not this teenybopper person, blah, blah, blah. Even if a lot of people see me and the franchise as like that, I never have, at any point. But I don't feel the need to fight against it. I've never tried to pander to any kind of audience. I've tried to make the films as intelligent and uncheesy as you could. And I've tried to make them the best they can be. I've never thought about it any other way. So I hope that pays...
...being here, there’s people whom I’ve read with great admiration, and suddenly they’re over in the next office, so it’s very heady and exciting. The students are remarkable of course. I don’t mean to pander here, but they truly are. The undergraduates here are as accomplished often, as graduate students I’ve worked with other places, so that’s fun for me. One of my brothers came here as an undergrad, and I used to visit him, you know, longingly, when...
...late and may only be taking place now because of Polanski’s celebrity, but this is merely a reflection of the unfortunate fact that not everyone who escapes justice is punished, not proof that people who escape justice for long enough should be rewarded. Nor should justice pander to peculiar circumstances or Academy Awards. The fact that Roman Polanski is an acclaimed movie director who gave people cinematic masterpieces like “Rosemary’s Baby” does not exonerate him, and any defense of Polanski that is predicated on his artistic gifts is terribly...
...become significantly less apparent. Traditional moderates across the aisle, in the model of Sens. Olympia J. Snowe or Susan M. Collins, might be looked to as swing votes instead of Lieberman. Occasionally courting these two socially liberal, fiscally conservative New England Republicans seems far preferable than having to pander to Lieberman just months after he traveled the country trying to torpedo his party’s chances. Given the crises that face America at the moment, it seems only logical that this new wave of Democrats would want to face them as a unified party. But this should also...
...ironically, as when the administration’s news appearances are juxtaposed with the song “What a Wonderful World,” the result is a cliché that’s been used before to greater effect. The jokes themselves are mostly cheap-shots that pander to a liberal audience—at one point, Vice President Cheney (Richard Dreyfuss) snaps at Karl Rove (Toby Jones), “I’m really confused as to what you’re doing in this room.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...