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...more contested elections of the evening, Noah R. Freeman '98-'99, Kamil E. Redmond '99 and Stephen N. Smith '02 were elected to the Committee for Undergraduate Education (CUE). Smith was one of only four first-year students elected during the evening...
...because it was a private medical matter. Evidently, it didn't fit the mold of a feisty American hero blasting back into orbit. Neither does the prospect of delaying the launch, with Clinton and hundreds of congressmen, celebrities and network anchormen waiting to hear "Godspeed, John Glenn" right on cue. But once again, reality seems to be reminding us that space flight is no simple ride into the sunset...
...whose entire life has been a drama broadcast into living rooms suddenly realizes that even his most natural moments occur according to a rehearsed script. Though we laughed when his wife looked directly into the camera to advertise a cooking product and when the show's director prompted, "Cue the sun!", the movie's emotional center was Truman's exit. The movie broke out of being simply another meditation on the control of the media and the audience's complicity in "to be continued" plot lines...
...Clinton took his cue from The Truman Show, he'd know that he can't keep blaming the media forever. At some time, we're all going to get tired of thinking about a story's "spin" and come back to wonder whether there is, in fact, a story to tell. After all, even though we, the television audience, know it's ridiculous for Ally McBeal to keep hearing secrets in the law firm's bathroom, we still forgive it, for sake of unfolding the plot. Heck, it is TV, and she has to find out somehow...
...Like love itself, of course, no one can. As in these desolate and beautiful stories, Painted from Memory suggests, we too may linger on the comforting ache of love remembered, complicit in our own exquisite misery. Misery, after all, is just another kind of tenderness, only slightly transposed. Cue the strings, the fashionable flugelhorns. I'm with Costello and Bacharach: I'll take the memories...