Those Who Traffic in Spin Can Get Caught in the Cycle
Ben BrantleyNovember 13, 2008: "The projected images that flicker and fade like pale fireworks between scenes of “Farragut North” — Beau Willimon’s predictable but enjoyable play about spinmeisters on the campaign trail — are so immediately and overwhelmingly familiar that sensitive, CNN-watching theatergoers may flinch. Overgroomed anchors spewing poll numbers, sloganeering posters, headshots of leonine figures doing their best to look presidential: haven’t we had enough of this during the past two years? Doesn’t the (pardon my language) closure offered by last week’s national elections mean that we can take a breather?"
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