Mr. Obama faces different issues, beginning with Mr. Wright, who suggested last week that the United States was attacked by terrorists because it had itself engaged in terrorism; Mr. Obama has now denounced his former pastor.
The poll was conducted as Mr. Wright dominated political news with a series of speeches and appearances; among other incendiary claims, he suggested that the United States was attacked by terrorists because it had itself engaged in terrorism.
They belong simultaneously to the history of the popularization of Shakespeare and the early movie industry's attempts to dignify itself by engaging with the classics.
Sudan, joining a growing list of pariah nations, is trying to create a new image for itself by engaging more positively with the world, the Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations said today.
"North Korea is only further isolating itself by engaging in provocative acts, and is wasting its money on weapons and propaganda displays while the North Korean people go hungry," the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, said in a statement on Thursday evening, which was Friday morning in Asia.
And the show even subverts the idea of patriotism itself by engaging with the messy humanity behind national conflicts.
"North Korea is only further isolating itself by engaging in provocative acts, and is wasting its money on weapons and propaganda displays while the North Korean people go hungry," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.
As they say in theater, Pippin breaks the "fourth wall" -- it tackles the conventions of theater itself by engaging the audience.
Leon E. Panetta, a former Democratic congressman from California who was President Bill Clinton's chief of staff, said, "The smart thing from my own experience is that when there's a highly charged emotional event in the world, you're better off letting that event play out by itself rather than engaging it politically.
But what we found was the opposite of that". The filmmakers maintain that by directly engaging the case itself and striving for fairness, it was probably more useful to their cause than it would have been had the audience started from their point of view.
