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...beneath a giant Christo drawing of The Gates (not Bill and Melinda but the Central Park installation), surrounded by art books. It's a lovely day to do nothing, but that's not really an option."I get very little time entirely alone," he says, moments before six people appear in the living room with videoconferencing equipment to discuss a soon-to-be-announced consumer campaign for African development. Tom Lantos, a Democratic Representative from California, swings by with his granddaughter. Bono and Lantos are close enough that the Congressman, a Holocaust survivor, has encouraged Bono to reference worldwide indifference...
...driving’ was borrowed from the owners of carriages, and to travel on an airplane was naturally termed ‘flying.’ ‘Phone’ and ‘telephone,’ long-standing fixtures of language both, appear to be falling out of favor as verbs despite Who Wants to be a Millionaire‘s allowance that participants can ‘phone a friend.’ Instead, we call them up (far preferable to ‘celling’ them, as this would set up some unfortunate...
...incident from his youth lead him into a labyrinth of personal and political guilt, and a confrontation startling in its violence. Till the very end of the film, the very last shot, you may ask, Yes, but whodunit? Who was the anonymous terrorizer? And as the closing credits appear over that final shot, I say that you can find an answer... if you look closer...
...Ivry Quay (circa 1907). Rousseau's people were not always successful. Hands look like kilos of sausages, and some of his portraits verge on the grotesque - the child in Boy on the Rocks (1895-97) resembles a stuffed toy perched uncomfortably on some small mountain peaks. Others appear overambitious failures, until you look further. The monumental Portrait of a Woman (1895) is one of several Rousseaus bought by Picasso. It might seem a clumsy copy of a commercial photograph, until you notice the woman's hand holding an upturned, withered branch, and beyond the balcony railings a bleak treeless landscape...
Neko doesn’t appear in the video (unlike the usual subjects of my searches, she’s done with being manipulated by men), but her voice is prominently featured on the vocal track...