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...then she has been in lockdown, either lashed to McCain's side to boost the size of his crowds, or hunkered down in debate prep and remedial candidate school. No press conferences, few interviews, no questions allowed from the reporters traveling with her, no appearances on The View to stare down Joy Behar. Rather than playing to her strengths as a fresh face in an unendurably long campaign, they hid her away in a kind of conspicuous vote of no-confidence - which, one can only imagine, took a toll on her. I was struck watching her in St. Paul, where...
...chestnut about the "insane" being more authentically alive than those of us leading ordered, conformist, "normal" lives. "The boy has created out of his drab existence a passion more ferocious than any I have known in any second of my life," says Dr. Dysart. "That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time. 'At least I galloped...
...Ronson, a British guy who wrote a book called The Men Who Stare at Goats, which George Clooney is making into a movie. He's a documentarian, but a really good writer, too. There's a sportswriter called Michael McCambridge who wrote a really great history of the NFL called America's Game. I'd never heard of him till recently. I like Seth Mnookin, who wrote Hard News, a history of the New York Times [during the Jayson Blair...
...diagnosis of cancer this year. Walk into the oncology waiting room of a hospital and you'll find it hard not to notice the crowd--or the balding heads, the yellow faces, that gaunt prisoner-of-war look of those who are well into their chemotherapy. You stare blankly across the room at the others staring blankly back, everyone silently asking the question: Am I going to make it? When you're facing that kind of primal question, you say to yourself, "Well, at least I'm not alone." And that is precisely the problem...
...sleek and efficient and fun as they are. That's one of the limitations of machine entertainment like the Anderson Death Race. It can't break the mold it's cast in; it can reproduce only itself. It doesn't take the sublime risk that the audience will stare at the screen going "Huh?"- and, maybe later...