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DOUG GALE, A 30-YEAR-OLD Dallas banker, returned from a vacation to Tokyo and Hong Kong in 2001 raving as much about TV sets as about ancient temples, towering skyscrapers and exotic food. A self-proclaimed tech geek, Gale scouted out electronics shops and was mesmerized by flat-screen TVs. Their monstrous sizes, sleek designs and flashy displays were perfect, he thought, for watching his favorite Dallas Stars charge down the ice. "I'd never seen anything like them," he says of the TVs. "They were just phenomenal. As soon as I got back to Dallas I was thinking...
...shirked the most fundamental civic duty: casting a ballot. "I felt embarrassed and irresponsible," she confesses. This time Shackelton, who supports Democratic nominee Senator John Kerry, registered for an absentee ballot and spent a night last week watching her candidate debate President George W. Bush on a giant TV screen in a packed lecture hall in London. Shackelton is far from alone in her renewed determination to vote in next month's election. With polls showing Bush and Kerry in a dead heat, Democrat and Republican groups report an explosion of expat enthusiasm for casting a ballot. Democrats Abroad...
...surprise of contemporary moviegoers, the modern political documentary is a branch of a tradition rooted in objectivity and artistic unobtrusiveness. That tradition is on display (alongside fictional feature films) at the Harvard Film Archive’s election prelude, entitled “Direct Democracy: The Presidential Election on Screen,” that began Oct. 14 and runs through Sunday...
...people who screen films seem to be joining the filmmakers in brazen partisan advocacy. The past few months have made one point unmistakably clear: America has certainly strayed far from the subgenre of political cinéma vérit?...
...robes,” someone suddenly shouts from off screen, “put down the WMD and get on the ground! You’re under arrest.” All hell breaks loose, and as bullets fly, buildings explode and the Eiffel Tower topples onto the Arc de Triomph at the hands of a misfired American bazooka, we are introduced to the good looking men and women of Team America...