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Everywhere the symbols will align to send a comfortable message. The imperial raised platform will be gone, replaced by a lower, more accessible stage; Washington politicians will be shoved off to side stages and obscure time slots; and an entire classroom of inner-city kids will spotlight Bush's education proposals. A final night devoted to testimonials to the candidate will feature an African-American preacher; women will be prominently displayed in prime-time speaking roles every night...
These powerful men and women work mostly behind-the-scenes, staying out of the public spotlight...
...that people have been concerned with your focus on attacking Bush instead of laying a foundation of ideas for your campaign. But remember, to dismiss the other candidate as an intellectual lightweight is not an attack. It's a dismissal. And the sooner you get Bush out of the spotlight with an aristocratic wave of your hand (come on, we both know it's in the blood) the sooner you can get the voters to start focusing on your issues, like the environment or the Internet or whatever (Just a tip: People are generally more concerned about things like...
...Larry watching is a big-time sport in Northern California. And Ellison's latest escapade incorporated all the traits that make him so compulsively watchable: ruthless competitiveness ("It's not enough that we win; all others must lose," he has said, paraphrasing Genghis Khan); love of the spotlight (a biography of him by Mike Wilson is titled The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison); a preternatural obsession with Microsoft and Gates; and a management style that sometimes has an inmates-running-the-asylum feel. "This was precisely the kind of goofy thing...
...guardians of good taste, we don't recommend Scary Movie to everyone. For one thing, it's uneven--a flaw even more glaring on second and third viewings. But we happily endorse Wayans' re-entry into the spotlight. By the time he left In Living Color in 1992, he had ascended from his humble roots as the second of 10 children in a family in the New York City projects into television history. He had also ascended to the galaxy of stars fated to spend the bulk of their careers overshadowed by their own TV excellence. (Coincidentally, these stars often...