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...colloquial black man’s blues. Brody is magnificent in the role, portraying a man determined to flaunt his success with a high-profile lifestyle, buying his friends new houses, booze, jewelry, and, of course, the movie’s namesake: Cadillacs. Complementary to Brody is Jeffrey Wright as the womanizing, ruthless, and somehow lovable Muddy Waters. Although it appears that Wright is mimicking the jowly facial expressions of Brando’s Don Corleone a little too closely, his believable performance shows his range as an actor—something his meager part in the recent...

Author: By Will L. Fletcher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cadillac Records | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...opponent was," he said, appearing to contradict the assessment of the campaign's ad man, Fred Davis (no relation), who has described in other interviews an atmosphere of extreme caution over racial issues that hampered the campaign's message on topics like Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Campaign Postmortem at Harvard | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...McInturff contended that even as McCain chose not to engage the Wright issue out of principle, a more aggressive approach would have offered little upside. The demographic groups that McCain was losing in the polls, including voters between the ages of 18 and 30, were likely to be turned off by Wright attacks. The context of the entire campaign, McInturff said, was a national math that did not favor McCain at any point. He said he told the candidate that the "happy scenario" was for McCain to narrowly win the Electoral College and lose the popular vote by about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Campaign Postmortem at Harvard | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...Wright battled in the post all game, playing solid defense while notching 11 points. And Kenyi maybe played the biggest of them all, forcing four steals, scoring 10 points in 41 crucial minutes. The catch: all the while, he was forced to guard the Huskies’ best player, Matt Janning, who shot just...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Frosh Bounce Back in Defeat | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...Crimson also got more than it expected out of five standout players. Junior Jeremy Lin, senior Drew Housman, and the triumvirate of star freshmen—Boehm, Wright, and Kenyi—played every nail-biting minute of overtime...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Frosh Bounce Back in Defeat | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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