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...home in Kansas City, Mo.--took off in his family's dented minivan for a 750-mile (1,200 km) trip across the center of Missouri. Missouri, he notes, has backed the winner in every presidential election in the past 100 years except one. "I've done this sort of rolling interview before," he says, "and what struck me as different this time was that everyone seemed a little nervous to be talking politics." In general, David found a good number of blue collar white voters who said they plan to vote for Obama because of the economy, and some...
Body of Lies is itself a maze movie, a subgenre that has both its seductions and its brambles. A maze movie flatters viewers' intelligence, their ability to sort out the jigsaw pieces of an elaborate puzzle. So the film hopscotches the globe, Syriana-style, from Qatar to Syria, Amman to Baghdad, with an incendiary side trip to Manchester, England, and back to Hoffman's office and breakfast nook in Virginia. The film introduces so many swarthy faces--foremost among them Hani Salaam (Mark Strong), the Jordanian intelligence chief--and in such a hurry, you may feel you need the equivalent...
...America would really vote for a black man. We'd like to be wrong, but we think we're right. There is no sense in the black community of the kind of entitlement to the presidency felt by some Hillary Clinton supporters. Many of them expressed shock at the sort of sexism that greeted her. But very few black people were shocked that Michelle Obama was called a "baby mama" or that GOP Congressmen seem to have a penchant for referring to Obama as "boy" and "uppity...
...much of the music seemed to come from the same new-age soundtrack with the requisite beeps and static. Not surprisingly, the one-minute format was better at capturing small moments than complex concepts. “About a minute is a good amount of time for a sort of visual gag,” audience member Diana G. Kimball ’09 said. “A minute isn’t a very good length of time for subtlety.” The most successful films were those that didn’t attempt to capture anything...
...Greeks. We explored brotherhood and post-traumatic stress disorder. Throughout the process, we interviewed a lot of veterans and people in service.” Heidi Nelson, one of the dramaturges, says that when they began working on the project two summers ago, the group had no idea what sort of production it would ultimately produce. “We knew it would be a play about war, but nothing more specific than that,” Nelson says. “[McLaughlin] asked people to research anything and everything that peaked their interest involving war.” Students...