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...where they may not have been found, and symbols out of everyday occurrences, seeking to give her audiences “pleasure and cognition… wonder, skepticism, beauty” and more. “In her films,” writes Tom Gunning in his foreword to Child??s book This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics Of Film, “images, sound and words are all treated as plastic matter, open to re-arrangement, liberated from predetermined meaning, and embarked on adventures in ambiguity and discovery.” Such liberation and adventures...
...Sunset Tree” a young Darnielle also loses perspective, but in the other extreme, seeing reflections of his deterioration in the “half-eaten gallons of ice-cream in the freezer.” In “Dance Music,” the child??s desire to escape his parent’s fighting is reduced to the epiphany that “this is what the volume knob...
...death and loss.” At the center of his set, he placed one of the closing pieces of “Sunset Tree,” the usually somber elegy “Love Love Love.” The song starts at the periphery of a child??s education: “King Saul fell on his sword…and Joseph’s brother sold him down the river for a song,” and finishes at what was presumably a central moment in a young songwriter’s growth, Kurt...
...most people, the risk from mercury by eating fish and shellfish is not a health concern,” states a March 2004 FDA report. “Yet, some fish and shellfish contain higher levels of mercury that may harm an unborn baby or young child??s developing nervous system.”But HMS Professor Emily Oken, who spearheaded the Environmental Health Perspectives study, said the risks of eating fish while pregnant must be weighed against the benefits. “Over the last few decades there’s been a lot of scientific evidence...
Even David’s faith is bizarrely pragmatic. When another of his children falls ill, David refuses to eat and prays for a week straight, yet at news of the child??s death, David heads right inside for a meal. The king offers his puzzled servants the curt explanation, “I shall go to [my son], but he shall not return to me.” The more we see of Israel’s fabled king, the less of him we understand...