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...screens before, but Conran was the first to try to build absolutely everything nonhuman on the computer. It's the anti--Who Framed Roger Rabbit, with Conran leaving holes for the actors, who ran from one piece of tape on the floor to another as cameramen were instructed to tilt and rotate by exact degrees at precise moments. That, it turns out, does not make for happy cameramen, who have creative ideas of their...
...President Bush's political mastermind, Karl Rove, intended. They have identified Republican Senators who defied them and will do all they can to get rid of them in future primaries. And in states like Florida and South Dakota, they think they have a chance to use the issue to tilt a few Senate races this fall. They plan to introduce as many as a dozen state constitutional amendments in swing states around the country. The Senate debate was merely an opportunity to get media oxygen for this effort. It is an integral part of the Bush re-election campaign...
...Iraq invasion helped tilt the balance in Tehran in favor of the hard-liners, its aftermath had the opposite effect in Washington. The failure of the wildly optimistic projections of the neocons to pan out in Iraq has seen the balance in the U.S. foreign policy shift inexorably back towards the realist camp. Where the State Department had initially been shut out of postwar planning by the Pentagon, by the beginning of 2004 it was effectively in charge of the Iraq mission...
...ways. If that's the case, expect the next generation of campaign strategists to precede every major election not only with the traditional TV ad buys but also with a scheme for the rollout of some thermonuclear book, movie, CD or even video game, all designed to tilt the political balance just in time...
...character, encapsulated in that now condensed credit sequence, in which Carrie wanders awestruck through Manhattan--then gets drenched by a bus that hits a puddle. It's part fantasy, part dirty reality--the chaos of city life, the comic messiness of sex. Even a judiciously censored version will inevitably tilt toward the fantasy. TBS's Sex is a fine, perceptive comedy; it's just not quite the same fine, perceptive comedy. The difference is the difference between making love and a certain gerund I can't write here. Both are wonderful things. But we all know they...