Word: buckingham
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...such authority in the nation to set minimum performance standards for airlines. Soon it will name names of underachievers in its "Guaranteed Passenger Standards" program, which requires carriers to shape up or face fines--or worse. "Airports have historically been run for the benefit of the airlines," says Virginia Buckingham, executive director of Massport. "But we're starting to look at service from the customer's point of view...
...sounds like a puppet," Tony Blair "doesn't understand the countryside," and "his wife is even worse," Blair's budget is "a load of pap." These are the standard opinions of well-bred Tories, and even the "sheik's" paper, the News of the World, took the deal when Buckingham Palace offered an on-the-record interview in exchange for the tapes. MY EDWARD IS NOT GAY, blared the headline (which, unbelievably, the Palace approved); we also learned that Sophie is fertile but would consider medical treatment if needed. Thanks so much for sharing. Then after rivals printed distorted bits...
...Buckingham's big video project this semester will most likely involve editing and expanding her longest piece, a 12-minute sequence that intersperses scenes of her mother, more clips of her grandmother and shots of Buckingham with her best friend at age 13, "more drunk than I've ever been in my whole life," as she says. Editing plans include making her grandmother seem "less of a monster" and more conversation about "eating disorders and feminine identity...
...Buckingham wants to make people uncomfortable and to "get them to talk about things they wouldn't talk about otherwise," and she definitely succeeds. Her footage is not just controversial, but artistic; she wouldn't be able to produce such visceral reactions in her viewers unless her editing and her images weren't replete with talented editorial decisions and craftsmanship with her camera...
While future plans include a year in Brazil to shoot a thesis, practice Portuguese and have a lot of fun, hopefully under a Harvard sponsorship umbrella, Buckingham is fine where she is now, mostly in the basement of Sever, recombining the stories in her memory for other people...