Word: themes
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...only did Hillary Clinton come through for him big-time. The campaign pivoted Tuesday from a vaguely defensive attempt to reintroduce the candidate to a more upbeat theme of future vs. past...
...famous 1957 essay, "Underground Films," Manny argued that "the true masters of the male action film - such soldier-cowboy-gangster directors as Raoul Walsh, Howard Hawks, William Wellman, William Keighley, the early, pre-Stagecoach John Ford, Anthony Mann" - deserved a higher place in the cinema canon than the big-theme directors who won Oscars and the praise of mainstream reviewers. He praised Hawks especially "because he shows a maximum speed, inner life, and view, with the least amount of flat foot." Manny's celebration of action directors took a while to kick in - it had to be doubled or seconded...
After the bustle of the theme parks, take a person you'd like to kiss to Leu Gardens ($7), a 50-acre (20 hectare) botanical garden in downtown Orlando. Make your way back to the Reba Tennessee Varnes bench and sit under the Spanish moss that hangs from a weeping Chinese elm. This must be the most romantic spot in Florida. Not far away is the Orlando Museum of Art ($8), which focuses on works by Americans. Don't miss Dennis Oppenheim's majestically disturbing 1996 installation Products from the Snowman Factory, a collection of faceless fiberglass snowmen leaning...
...rational. But that's also a weakness: sometimes the most rational response is to rip your opponent's lungs out. On the same day as the North Carolina meeting, Obama spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars and reacted with carefully prepared passion to John McCain's scurrilous campaign theme that Obama doesn't put America first. "Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country," he said, to the best applause he received from that skeptical crowd. It was an effective moment, but defensive. It was not how you win a presidential campaign...
...canvass for him. Obama is the first national politician to reflect their widespread feeling that time is marching forward but politics is not, that the baby boomers in the interest groups and the media are indeed trapped in a time warp, replaying their stalemated arguments year after year. The theme recurs in conversations with Obama supporters: He just feels like something...