The bar here is actually pretty low: rather than a slam-dunk act of persuasion, the Brooks method need simply not scare away voters weary of historic politics.

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Brooks is in a perfect position to read the Riot Act.

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That act, like those moments from Garbo, Gish, and Brooks, suggests a vein of contrariness and complication, the astonishments of art.

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On her honeymoon, she and husband Olaus Murie (a scientist with the U.S. Biological Survey who later helped write and enact the Wilderness Act) traveled by steamship and then by dog sled through the Brooks Range, in winter.

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