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...sweaters screened with the cover to OK Computer, in some sort of indirect homage to Wilson. Not to be outdone, the baby boomers sported shirts with the original album cover to Smile—the covers that were printed by the thousands in 1967, but never packaged with a Smile LP and never sold...
...sooner he can answer the question of whether we are taking the right approach to winning the peace. Robert Tormey Major, U.S.A.F. (ret.) Escondido, California, U.S. The insurgents in Iraq can identify U.S. troops, but American soldiers cannot identify the terrorists. They can blend in with the population, smile, shake our hands, thank us and take our money one day, then attack us the next. This could go on indefinitely as casualties continue to increase with no end in sight. We cannot win this war. The election of a puppet government in Iraq will not end it. If we return...
...were told it was the year of the angry male; 2004 may or may not be the year of the angry female at the ballot box, but it sure is on the idiot box. And you have to wonder if the same advisers who directed Bush to smile and Kerry to target working moms might not want to throw some ads toward Wisteria Lane. In this discontented autumn, the poll margins are razor-thin. And not only the housewives are desperate...
...Foxx would lead the parade. His nailing of Charles' mannerisms (the stutter at the start of a sentence, the reflex smile, the hugging gesture that thanks a crowd for its cheers) might echo Foxx's In Living Color days. But this is more than a stunt. He carves a complex character out of what could have been hagiography. Foxx's performance, like the film, is sympathetic but not sentimental. It is as true as the blues to Charles' pain, as ecstatic as rock 'n' roll to his triumph. It sings, and it swings. --By Richard Corliss
...swaying his or her parents to vote against Bush. An ad in a local paper in the northwestern tip of New Mexico sought young women 16 to 28 who could "do a dance number and represent American diversity" at Republican events. Applicants, it warned, "must be able to smile and stay pleasant for long hours...