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...SOUND-BITE...
Ross Perot, the king of content-free sound bites (whose favorite, of course, is "I could sound bite it for you, but I won't"), is preparing his first wave of television commercials. Though filming has yet to begin, Perot's ads will probably ape his insistence that campaign promises are made to be broken, so he won't make any. In other words, as befits the man who seems so far to be running for President of Hallmark, there will be lots of homilies and little else...
Both the anger and the human sympathy that animate What It Takes are rooted in this perception. Cramer believes with some justice that the rituals of presidential politics (the sound-bite speeches, the handlers, the mind-numbing travel and the press claque with its self-aggrandizing agenda) end up blinding us to who the candidates actually are and what their life histories represent. "I wanted to know not about the campaign, but about the campaigners," Cramer explains in his introduction. For what fascinates him is "how people like us -- with dreams and doubts, great talents and ordinary frailties...
...result is a three-dimensional sound image with much of the presence, depth and dynamics of a live band. Trumpets bite, cymbals sizzle, bass strings snap and ring. Like an art restorer who scrapes off centuries' worth of grime to reveal the vibrant colors of the original, Parker makes it possible to hear the music as it must have sounded in New Orleans dance halls and Harlem ballrooms 60 years...
...seemed part New Age Carnaval, part 1960s teach-in and part soap opera. Vying for attention with religious leaders and research groups were such fringe organizations as H.E.M.P. (Help End Marijuana Prohibition). Asked what the drug had to do with sustainable development, spokesman Ron Tisbury had his offbeat sound bite ready: "Anything you can build with petrochemicals, you can make out of marijuana." The media began using words like farce and fiasco to describe Rio, and one participant called the conference the "greatest fraud ever perpetrated...