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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...still feeling its way, adapting the formats of radio and vaudeville and the Broadway stage. Allen, who had honed his skills in local radio and TV, seemed to understand the medium in a new way. He relaxed in front of the camera, gabbed with his announcer and bandleader, ad-libbed easily with guests and brought to TV a new sense of intimacy and informality. Amid the high-pitched show-biz artifice of most TV around him, Allen seemed to dial back the medium's whole metabolic rate and get it in sync with the viewer at home. He made television...
...ad ends with rapid-fire images of the devil, an atomic mushroom cloud, a picture of George W. Bush and finally another shot of the devil, set to the stabbing music from Psycho and wrenching screams...
...Byrd ad, running in 10 states where black-voter turnout could make the difference, is part of a $2 million-plus campaign by the N.A.A.C.P. National Voter Fund. The group said it would replace the ad this week with a less graphic version, as part of a planned rotation. But Heather Booth, the group's executive director, makes no apologies. "Sometimes the truth hurts," she says...
...formed group run by G.O.P. consultant Stephen Marks, is up in four states with a spot linking Gore with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton, says the announcer, admires Hitler (flash to photo of the dictator) and defends rapists and cop killers (video of Willie Horton-style mug shots). The ad asks, "Mr. Gore...what kind of unholy alliance will you have with Al Sharpton?" Another ad, sponsored by a mysterious outfit called Aretino Industries, tells us that the Clinton-Gore Administration has traded national security for campaign contributions and that China has "the ability to threaten our homes with long...
...Florida, the campaign has put out a new ad hitting Bush for that allegedly overpromised trillion dollars of Social Security surplus - and draping the whole thing over a clip of the stumping Bush's flub/metaphor/incredible ignorance on Thursday about Gore's treating FDR's safety net "like it's some kind of federal program." (Which, by the way, Gore's surrogates have really latched onto, probably as a surrogate for the untouchable DUI story...