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That was me a year ago. And then I get Ecstasy lying on my desk after months of anticipation, and what's staring at me is a picture of Lou Reed's face (mind you, he's around 58 by my calculations, and it shows) and what looks like Darth Maul's light saber coming out of his neck on both sides. So I do the obvious thing and stick the album on. And almost instantly it hits me. The problem isn't that this is a bad album-it really isn't -but that the best thing...
...have it back at the end of the year," my teacher would bark as she stashed bracelet after bracelet away in the depths of her desk...
...score that's downright chilling in its simple beauty. (Kudos to John Ambrosone, Viola Mackenthun and Christopher Walker for their respective designs.) Underneath the surface, however, this enrapturing meditation on emptiness is really a study of absence. Forced absence. The only books on stage lie on the desk of Professor Robert Hampshire, Suzanne's teacher and lover at Ohio State. In scenes that should be crowded-a classroom, a movie screening-the only characters on stage are those directly mentioned in Alexanders' lecture. And in place of the constant snowfall called for in Kennedy's script there is only Molly...
...This is not to say that Schulze's medleys are solely documentary or homages to quotidian occurrences. In perhaps one of the best passages, a Schulze narrator, Danny, is frozen by the singular event of looking into "crocodile eyes," the grainy veneer of a cheap old Stasi desk. "Every time it happens, I promise myself I'm going to talk to the others about this amoeba-like grain in the veneer," he says. "We all have to spend our time staring at these lines and squiggles, which at the far left look like a crocodile's eye. But nobody ever...
...agree with Silverman's decision and the way he differentiated different roles within the life of the graduate student. Whether it is working for a professor, grading exams or sitting at a department's front desk, graduate students are often employed in tasks disconnected from their studies, at times in totally different parts of the university. Like any group of workers, they should have a right to unionize...