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...when outsiders see the film and start dishing. (The outsiders are almost never critics. We've been out of the power equation for ages.) Tabloid headlines play a role too. When the stars are Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez and the film is Gigli, the anticipatory mood can quickly sour from must-see to buzz...
Reagan still had to prove himself in A material, and just before the war he got a few chances. In the fluffy 1941 comedy Million Dollar Baby, he's Peter Rowan, a rebellious composer who's "got a sour disposition and a mouth to match." He calls himself "just a student of history. Civilization's rotting away." (Back then, he didn't mean the Soviet Union.) Reagan is pretty persuasive as a fellow spoiling for a fight with the world...
Nutritionist Marion Nestle stares in wonder at the latest bit of marketing wizardry to hit American sweetshops: sour green tamarind-flavored Shrek candies. She pops off the Shrek-shaped cap on a Crazy Hair confection and, after some initial befuddlement (of a kind no one under 12 would suffer), turns a dial on the bottom of the plastic tube. Sticky strands of chartreuse goo extrude through a nozzle and "grow" upward in apparent defiance of gravity. "Wow!" says Nestle, who has a deep appreciation for such ingenuity. She plunges in with a taste test. "Yech! So sour!" she complains...
...groundwork for the U.S.'s postwar international leadership. He knew all too well that his isolationist countrymen had scuttled Woodrow Wilson's bid to claim that leadership after World War I. He was worried that demanding too great a sacrifice in World War II might once again sour the nation on assuming its international responsibilities. Then all his painstaking work to wean Americans from their provincial ways would be squandered and the world once again rendered unsafe for democracy...
...should they? Idol watchers take these questions seriously. After the talented Jennifer Hudson was booted in April, there were charges of racism (Hudson is African American) and vote fixing. USA Today editorialized, "Will this prime-time scandal further sour the public on other elections?" One suspects democracy will survive no matter what happens on the May 26 finale. But America's No. 1 reality show--up 19% over its red-hot 2003 ratings--is more than just a contest. It's a weekly interrogation by America of its tastes. We watch. We vote. Sometimes, we get angry at our voting...