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...least obvious of the many Kerry mistakes ticked off by consultants on both sides. There was the decision not to go negative. (Mocked by Paul Begala with an eye-roll worthy of Paul Lynde.) There was the decision not to respond immediately to the Swift Boats for Truth ads ("John Kerry should have gotten pissed" says one former volunteer). There was the decision to leave get-out-the-vote operations to independent groups - known as 527s - rather than let the central operation mastermind the whole thing...
...America, to suspect that it will stop at nothing to protect its interests. But there is something routine about his paranoia here, something that belongs in a different film. He has a great topic in Man of the Year - a smart and unlikely Everyman , an outsider used to speaking truth to power, who now has power to speak populist truth (and disgust) to the powerless, focusing their inchoate needs and longings from the bully presidential pulpit. Instead, he?s given us an awkward mix of standard genres that doesn?t give us what we desperately need in this increasingly desperate...
...never try to push it and I never try to figure out what ‘it’ is.” If he has a philosophy, it seems to be that honesty is the key to comedy. “I think people are attracted to truth in a performer,” he said. He realizes that he is “living the dream,” and enjoying it and trying to make the most out of it everyday. He just hopes his fans will stick with him. “I want...
...it’s part of the appeal. “I think these films in some ways are built to be open to interpretation,” Bujalski says. “They really need an audience to meet them halfway, and you have to see your own truth or falsehood or whatever you see in there.”AN ELITE POPULISTBut such an audience has had to seek out Bujalski’s micro-budget films, due to their limited runs at small theaters across the country. “Mutual Appreciation?...
...issue. Hizballah's leaders, and their masters in Iran, are seeking to destroy Israel. Any solution of the Palestinian issue that falls short of Israel's destruction will leave many Muslim elements unsatisfied; they will strike again, only with better and more lethal weapons next time. Abdullah knows that truth. But he would never say it. It's more convenient - and much safer - for him to blame Israel. Stephen Listfield Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Ford's Uphill Road Re "Ford: just fix the car" [Sept. 18]: As a former Ford Maverick owner who remembers the gas shortages of the 1970s...