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Modest, workmanlike and a little wary of theatrics, Ohioans have nonetheless developed a flair for the dramatic when it comes to presidential elections. In 2004, election night came and went with no clear winner in the Buckeye State, and for a few long hours it seemed that the nightmare of 2000 just might repeat itself. When the results were finally tabulated, George W. Bush had won the state by just over 118,000 votes--a difference of fewer than 11 ballots per precinct...
...reminder that Beck, now almost 40, is a little cranky. But this midlife crisis-y, disillusioned Beck is just fine. While “Modern Guilt” lacks the high-budget weirdness we’ve come to expect from his videos, it delivers the originality and absurdist flair that defines them. But I, for one, do miss seeing him dance around like an awkward baby bird. —Molly O. Fitzpatrick
...movie with all these gruesome elements could easily be sensational. Maybe this one should have been. Maybe the telling should have a little flair, and a headlong rush toward dreadful truths. But that's not Eastwood's way. He just wants to tell the story, in uninflected, police-procedural fashion; the movie is like a flatfoot following a suspicious trail with no special intuition but an admirable doggedness. It doesn't hurtle, it ambles. You will find, on the Internet, documentation about the Wineville Chicken Coop matter, and the criminality of then-Mayor George Cryer as a pawn...
...Ronald Reagan stared down the Soviets with intermediate-range missiles, when F.D.R. went off on a Caribbean cruise and dreamed up the lend-lease program - and then managed to sell it to a highly skeptical public - all represent moments of leadership that required brinkmanship as well as salesmanship, a flair for grand strategy as well as a fine sense of tactics...
...opinions and his accomplishments--all gussied up to show everyone who's not as lucky, as smart, as gutsy or, well, as cool as Sir Richard how to succeed in business. And you've got to give him his due: the guy can sell just about anything, and with flair. Perhaps even books...