"There's a New York Jewish culture that has a saying 'Think Yiddish, act British'," says Brooks.

“纽约的犹太人文化中流传着这样一句谚语‘像犹太人一样去思考，像英国人一样去表现’，”布鲁克斯说。

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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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